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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glьjь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁y-ó-s, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-.[1]

Noun

*glьjь m[1]

  1. clay, loam

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: *глеи (*glei)
      • Old Ruthenian: глей m (hlej, “sticky clay”)
        • Belarusian: глей m (hljej, “silt”) (dialectal)
        • Ukrainian: глей m (hlej, “sticky clay, silt; mud; swamp”); ґлей (glej, “glue; resin”), глей m (hlej, “white clay”) (dialectal)
      • Russian: глей m (glej, “clay, gleysol”), гле́я f (gléja, “clay; mud”) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: гле̑ј m (“gley”)
      Latin script: glȇj m (“gley”)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: gľej m, glej m (“glue; resin”) (dialectal)
    • Polish: glej m (“gleysol”)
    • Slovak: glej m (“wood glue”); glia, glie (“glue”) (dialectal)

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*glьjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 168
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