of an elephant sleeping leaning on a tree. Vovin (2011) proposes that <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> <span class="searchmatch">slonъ</span> reflects Old Chinese 象 (“elephant”), whose pronunciation he reconstructs...
Formed as *<span class="searchmatch">slonъ</span> (“shed, offset”) + *-iti. *slonìti impf (perfective *slaněti) to lean to screen, to shelter *<span class="searchmatch">slonъ</span> (“shed, offset”) *podъslonъ (“shelter”)...
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to crook”), however, compare also <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span> *<span class="searchmatch">slonъ</span> (“offset, protrusion”), considered a doublet by Mladenov (evincing...
+ *<span class="searchmatch">slonъ</span> (“offset”). Synchronically, a deverbal of *zasloniti. *zaslonъ m shelter, screen curtain * -ъmь in North <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>, -omь in South <span class="searchmatch">Slavic</span>. *zaslona f...