Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/podъbělъ

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.

*podъ- (“under-”) +‎ *bělъ (“white”), so called because the flipside of the leaves of Tussilago farfara contrasts starkly into white. For the same reason the butterbur or coltsfoot (Petasites spp.) bears the name in Russian, as well as бѣлокопы́тникъ (bělokopýtnik).

*podъbělъ m

1. coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)

   Synonym: *kopytъnikъ

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: падбе́л (padbjél)
  • Russian: подбе́л (podbél), pre-1918 подбѣ́лъ (podbě́l)
  • Ukrainian: підбі́л (pidbíl)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: по́дбел (pódbel)
  • Macedonian: подбел (podbel)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: по̀дбел, по̀дбјел, по̀дбијел, по̀дбил, по̀дбео, по̀дбио, по̀дбе̄љ, по̀дбијељ

    Latin script: pòdbel, pòdbjel, pòdbijel, pòdbil, pòdbeo, pòdbio, pòdbēlj, pòdbijelj

  • Slovene: podbẹ̀ł
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: podběl
  • Polish: podbiał
  • Slovak: podbeľ

• Non-Slavic:
  • → Hungarian: podbál, podbállapi, podbállapu (rare)
  • → Romanian: podbeál, podbeálă

• Pott, August Friedrich (1870) Beiträge zur vergleichenden Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der arischen, celtischen und slawischen Sprachen (in German), volume 6, Berlin: Ferdinand Dümmler’s Verlagsbuchhandlung, Harrwitz und Goßmann, pages 339–340