Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelti

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.

• Per Derksen, conceivably connected with Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to sway, to swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁-, but perhaps more plausibly connected with *pèlva (“chaff”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH-u-, from *pelH-, cognate with Sanskrit पलाव (palā́va, “chaff, husks”). Compare *pālìti.
• Vasmer also connects this verb with *pèlva (“chaff”), but gives different cognates: Lithuanian spãliai (“linen flax”), Latvian spil̃va (“husk”), Latin spolium (“hide stripped off an animal, prey”), Ancient Greek ἄσπαλον (áspalon, “hide”) (Hesychius), σπόλια (spólia, “clean-plucked wool from sheep's legs”) (Hesychius), Sanskrit फलति (phálati, “to burst”), स्फटति (spháṭati, “to tear”), स्फाटयति (sphāṭáyati, “to split”), Old High German spaltan (“to split”), German spalten (“to split”).

*pèlti impf

1. to weed

In East and West Slavic, the present these has a j-suffix.

In South Slavic, including Old Church Slavonic, a v-suffix appears instead.

The accent paradigm is unclear; sources variously posit a, b or c. The infinitive stem follows AP a, but the j-present cannot have an acute on the stem because it has a short vowel, so AP a is only possible in the v-stem variant, which has a liquid diphthong.

• *pèlva (“chaff”)

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: пало́ць (palócʹ)
  • Russian: поло́ть (polótʹ)
  • Ukrainian: поло́ти (polóty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: плѣвома (plěvoma, fem. nom. sg. pres. pass. part.)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: плевя́ (plevjá)
  • Macedonian: плеви (plevi)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пље̏ти

    Latin script: pljȅti

  • Slovene: plẹ́ti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: plít
  • Polish: pleć
  • Slovak: pleť
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: plěć
    • Lower Sorbian: plaś

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