Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plotъ

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.

Equivalent to the o-grade of Pre-Slavic *plekti (“to knit, to twine”) +‎ *-tъ, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to fold, plait”).

*plotъ m

1. fence

• *plesti

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: плотъ (plotŭ)
    • Belarusian: плот (plot)
    • Russian: плот (plot) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: пліт (plit)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: пл'от (plʺot), пл'іт (plʺit)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: плотъ (plotŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⱂⰾⱁⱅⱏ (plotŭ)

  • Bulgarian: плот (plot)
  • Macedonian: плот (plot)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: пло̑т

    Latin script: plȏt

  • Slovene: plot
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: plot
    • Czech: plot
      • Moravian (Mistřice): pu̯ot
  • Polish: płot
  • Slovak: plot
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: płót
    • Lower Sorbian: płot

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*plotъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 406
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плот”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress