Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pelvelъ

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Compare *pelva (“chaff”).

*pelvelъ m

1. weed?

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: половелъ (polovelŭ)
    • Middle Russian: половелъ (polovel)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: плѣвелъ (plěvelŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰾⱑⰲⰵⰾⱏ (plěvelŭ)

    • → Old East Slavic: плевелъ (plevelŭ), плѣвелъ (plěvelŭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: пле́велъ (plével)
        • ⇒ Belarusian: пле́вень (pljévjenʹ) (dialectal)
      • Russian: пле́вел (plével)
  • Bulgarian: пле́вел (plével); пле́ме̣н (plémẹn) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: плевел (plevel)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пле̂вељ; пле̏вел (dialectal)

    Latin script: plêvelj; plȅvel (dialectal)

  • Slovene: plevel, plìvel, plivel, plevę̂l, plevél
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: plevel
    • Czech: plevel
  • Slovak: plevel; pleveľ
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: plěwjel

• Varbot, Zh. Zh., editor (2021), “*pelvelъ / *pelvelь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 42 (*peča – *perzъ), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 87
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “пле́вел”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress