Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/plačь

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.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *plā́ˀkjas, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-yó-s, from *pleh₂k-. Equivalent to *plakati +‎ *-jь.

Noun

*plàčь m

1. crying, weeping

Inflection

Declension of *plàčь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm a)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*plàčь	*plàča	*plàči
genitive	*plàča	*plàču	*plàčь
dative	*plàču	*plàčema	*plàčēmъ
accusative	*plàčь	*plàča	*plàčę̇
instrumental	*plàčьmь, *plàčemь*	*plàčema	*plàčī
locative	*plàči	*plàču	*plàčīxъ
vocative	*plàču	*plàča	*plàči

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: плачь (plačĭ)
    • Belarusian: плач (plač)
    • Russian: плач (plač)
    • Carpathian Rusyn: пл'ач (plʺač)
    • Ukrainian: плач (plač)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: плачь (plačĭ)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

    • Bulgarian: плач (plač)
  • Macedonian: плач (plač)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: plač

    Cyrillic script: плач

  • Slovene: plȃč (tonal orthography) (literary)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: pláč
    • Czech: pláč
  • Polish: płacz
  • Slovak: plač
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: płač
    • Lower Sorbian: płac

References

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плач”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress