Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bľuščь

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 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

Alternative forms

Etymology

From *bľьvati (“to puke”) due to the reaction of man’s gastrointestinal system on its consumption or due to the ivy’s way of distribution. A theory that it is from the Old High German descendant of Proto-Germanic *blōstaz (“blossoming”) – which is in German Blust and in the rest of Proto-Germanic got expanded to *blōstmô – is reproofed because it is unlikely that a foreign word for “blossom” got borrowed for a plant which has hardly noticeable flowers. The similarity to Old Prussian bleusky (“rush”) is also most likely coincidental.

Fenwick 2016 proposes a derivation from a Proto-Indo-European *m̥h₂l-éw-sk-yo, a suffixed derivation of a neuter u-stem *móh₂lu, whence (following her) Ancient Greek μῶλυ (môlu, “moly”) as well as a wide range of IE phytonyms, including both well-known IE words for ‘apple’ and the Sanskrit terms for ‘mango’ and ‘tamarind’ hail.

Noun

*bľuščь m

  1. ivy (Hedera gen. et spp.)
  2. bryony (Dioscorea communis and Bryonia spp.)
  3. common hop (Humulus lupulus)

Inflection

Declension of *bľuščь (i-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *bľuščь *bľušči *bľuščьje, *bľušče*
genitive *bľušči *bľuščьju, *bľušču* *bľuščьjь, *bľušči*
dative *bľušči *bľuščьma *bľuščьmъ
accusative *bľuščь *bľušči *bľušči
instrumental *bľuščьmь *bľuščьma *bľuščьmi
locative *bľušči *bľuščьju, *bľušču* *bľuščьxъ
vocative *bľušči *bľušči *bľuščьje, *bľušče*
* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Declension of *bľuščь (soft o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *bľuščь *bľušča *bľušči
genitive *bľušča *bľušču *bľuščь
dative *bľušču *bľuščema *bľuščemъ
accusative *bľuščь *bľušča *bľuščę̇
instrumental *bľuščьmь, *bľuščemь* *bľuščema *bľušči
locative *bľušči *bľušču *bľuščixъ
vocative *bľušču *bľušča *bľušči
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: блюшч (bljušč), oftener плюшч (pljušč)
    • Russian: блющ (bljušč), but now плющ (pljušč, “ivy”)
    • Ukrainian: блющ (bljušč, “ivy”), dialectally also плющ (pljušč)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic: блюшть (bljuštĭ, “ivy”)
    • Bulgarian: блюш (bljuš), плюш (pljuš, “common hop”) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Štokavian: bljȗšt (“black bryony; saliva preceding vomit”), and also current in parts of Dalmatia and Istra as blúšć (“black bryony”)
      Chakavian Serbo-Croatian: bljušč (“black bryony”)
      Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian: bljušč (“black bryony”)
    • Slovene: bljúšč (“ivy; black bryony; white bryony”)
  • West Slavic:

References

  • Bezlaj, France (1976) Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Slovenian Language] (in Slovene), volumes 1 (A – J), Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, page 28
  • Fenwick, Rhona S. H. (2016) “Descendants and ancestry of a Proto-Indo-European phytonym *meh₂l-”, in Journal of Indo-European Studies‎, volume 44, numbers 3–4, pages 441-465
  • Ша́хматов, Алексе́й Алекса́ндрович (1912) “Slavische Wörter für Epheu”, in Festschrift: Vilhelm Thomsen zur Vollendung des siebzigsten Lebensjahres am 25. Januar 1912 (in German), Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 192–197
  • Štrekelj, Karel (1905) “Slavische Wortdeutungen”, in Archiv für slavische Philologie‎ (in German), volume 27, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, page 1905
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1975), “*bľuščь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 2 (*bez – *bratrъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 138, seemingly confounding words for lungwort listed by Šulek from *pluťe (“lung”)
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “блющ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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