Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/klějь

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.

• *klьjь, *kъlьjь, *kъlějь^[1]

Unclear. Perhaps:

• Deverbal of *kъliti (“to stick”) +‎ *-ějь (cf. Slovene kəliti), from tentative Proto-Indo-European *kol-. Possible cognates include Ancient Greek κόλλᾰ (kólla) and Middle Low German helen.
• Borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *klaij (“clay”)^[2], from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (whence Proto-Slavic *glьjь (“mud, sludge”)). Rejected by most Slavists.^[3]

*klějь m^[4][2][3]

1. glue, resin

• *uklěja (“bleak”) (type of fish)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: клѣи (klěi), клии (klii)
    • Old Ruthenian: клѣй (klěj)
      • Belarusian: клей (kljej); клыйи́ pl (klyjí) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: клей (klej)
    • Russian: клей (klej)
      • → Armenian: կլեյ (kley)
      • → Bezhta: кэлей (kelej)
      • → Ingrian: kleja
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Glagolitic script: ⰽⰾⱑⰻ (klěi)

    Old Cyrillic script: клѣи (klěi)

    • Bulgarian: клей (klej)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: кли̏ја f; кле̑ј (archaic, bookish)

    Latin script: klȉja f; klȇj (archaic, bookish)

  • Slovene: klẹ̑j, kleg (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: klí
    • Czech: klí, klih, klíh; klej (dialectal, obsolete)
  • Old Polish: klej, klij
    • Polish: klej, klij (dialectal)
      • → Yiddish: קליי (kley)
    • Silesian: klyj
  • Old Slovak:
    • Pannonian Rusyn: клий (klij)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Slovincian: kléj
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: klij
    • Upper Sorbian: klij

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “клей”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress