Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plěšь

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.

Cognate with Lithuanian pli̇̀kas (“bald”), pléikė (“bald patch”), Latvian pliks (“bare, bald”), possibly dialectal Norwegian flein (“bald patch”), mechanically from a Proto-Indo-European *ployḱh₂-o-, perhaps ultimately from a ḱ-extension of Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to pluck, to trim, to splice”). By surface analysis, *plěxa (“cleansed spot”) +‎ *-ь.

*plě̑šь f

1. bald patch

   Synonym: *lyso

2. baldness

• *plěša f

• *plěšьcь (“bald person”)
• *plěšina (“baldness”)
• *plěšivъ, *plěšastъ (“bald”)

• *plěxъ (“rare, faint, obscure”), *plěxavъ (“pale, faint”)
  • *plěšiti (“to peel, to trim, to clear off”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: плеш (plješ)
    • Russian: плешь (plešʹ)
    • Ukrainian: плíш (plíš)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: плѣша (plěša)
    • Bulgarian: плеш (pleš) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Serbo-Croatian: пље̏ша (obsolete)

    Serbo-Croatian: pljȅša (obsolete)

  • Slovene: plẹ̑š, plẹ́ša (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: pleš
  • Old Polish: plesz
    • Polish: (obsolete) plesz
  • Slovak: pleš (rare)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: plěch
    • Upper Sorbian: plesa

• → Romanian: pleș (“bald”)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плешь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “плешив”, in Български етимологичен речник (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 349
• “pleikė”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė , 2007–2012