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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *plútas, itself from Proto-Indo-European *plutós, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Latvian pluts (“raft, ferry”) (possibly borrowed from Slavic). Outside of Balto-Slavic, further cognate with Ancient Greek πλυτός (plutós, “washed”), Sanskrit प्लुत (pluta, “flowing, washing”), German Fluss (“river, flow”).
Noun
*plъ̀tъ m[1][2]
- raft
Inflection
Declension of
*plъ̀tъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plъ̀tъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 407
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “plъtъ plъta”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b raft (NA 119; PR 134)”