Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/omanъ

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 *omaniti (“to bewitch”), for ascribed protective witchery, its vegetable pungency, and its medicinal potency, fulfilling the role of the Arnica montana in the Germania.

Noun

*omanъ m

1. elecampane (Inula spp., especially Inula helenium)

Declension

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ама́н (amán)
  • Russian: ома́н (omán)
  • Ukrainian: ома́н (omán)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: оманъ (omanŭ)
  • Bulgarian: ома́н (omán)
  • Macedonian: оман (oman)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: о̀ман

    Latin script: òman

  • Slovene: ọ̑man (tonal orthography), vọ̑man
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: oman, woman, voman
  • Polish: oman
  • Slovak: oman
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: homan
    • Upper Sorbian: woman

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Albanian: omán
  • → Romanian: omán

References

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., Duridanov, I. V., editors (1995), “ома̀н”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 4 (мѝнго² – па̀дам), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 870
• Theißen, Ulrich (2006) ““Ein bezauberndes Hustenkraut”: Zu den Bezeichnungen des Alants (Inula helenium L.) in den slawischen Sprachen, vor allem im Bulgarischen”, in Zeitschrift für Balkanologie‎, volume 42, pages 228–237