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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mъldni
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mildnis, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dʰ-ni-s, from *meldʰ- (“lightning”).
Baltic cognates include Latvian milna (“hammer of the thunderer”), Old Prussian mealde (“lightning”).
Probable other Indo-European cognates include Old Norse Mjǫllnir (“Thor's hammer”), Middle Welsh mellt, myllt, Welsh mellt (“lightning”).
Inflection
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Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: мълнии (mŭlnii), мълнꙗ (mŭlnja)
- Belarusian: мала́нка (malánka), мо́лання (mólannja) (dialectal), мало́ння (malónnja) (dialectal), маладня́ (maladnjá) (dialectal)
- Russian: мо́лния (mólnija), моло́нья (molónʹja) (dialectal), молодня́ (molodnjá) (dialectal), меленья́ (melenʹjá) (dialectal)
- Ukrainian: маладня́ (maladnjá) (dialectal)
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: mlna (archaic)
- Polabian: måuńa
- Polish: mełnia (dialectal)
- Slovincian: mɵʉ̯łnǻu̯
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mъldni”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 333
- Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “мо́лния”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
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