Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glota

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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

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Alternative reconstructions

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Etymology

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Per Melnyčuk (EDUM), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (to amass, to clot), akin to Proto-West Germanic *klott (clod, lump), Proto-Germanic *kelþaz (fetus). Trubačev (ESSJa) presumes heterogenous origin, with possibly influence from *golota (nakedness).

Noun

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*glota f

  1. amalgamation, admixture
  2. (in some dialects) contamination

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Non-Slavic:
    • Romanian: gloată (band, mob)

Further reading

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  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1979), “*glota/*glotъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 6 (*e – *golva), Moscow: Nauka, page 138
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “глота”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 528
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “глота”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 251