Semantic History of Continuants of Proto-Slavic *Plъtь

The article attempts to determine the history of the semantics and semantic change of Proto-Slavic *plъtь, whose descendants in some Slavic languages have a wide range of meanings. ‘The soft tissue of the body’ is considered the original meaning, which provided the basis for the following secondary meanings: from ‘complexion’/‘the skin colour of the body’, ‘sex organ’ and ‘corpse’. They, in turn, later extended to ‘the skin on the face’, ‘dandruff’; ‘sex’, ‘spawn’ and ‘sperm’. The meanings ‘soft tissues’, ‘colour (of the face, body)’ and ‘skin (on the face)’ should be considered Proto-Slavic. The author concludes that the etymology of*plъtь can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European*pleu̯- ‘to float’. It is suggested that in Proto-Balto-Slavic the word originally meant scum/film floating on the surface of a liquid. This correlates well with the meanings of the Baltic relatives of the Slavic words: Lithuanian plutà ‘bread crust; crust; film’, Latvian pluta ‘meat’, plutas (pl.) ‘bald (tender, soft) skin, skin on the head; bright film/scum, mossy substance on ferruginous water; internal organs’.

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Proto-Slavic language, semantics, somatic vocabulary.

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16.09.2022

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16.10.2022

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GOST	Saenko M. Semantic History of Continuants of Proto-Slavic *Plъtь // Slavianovedenie – 2022. – Number 5 C. 132-144 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://slav.jes.su/S0869544X0022037-3-1 (circulation date: 06.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0022037-3
MLA	Saenko, Mikhail "Semantic History of Continuants of Proto-Slavic Plъtь." Slavianovedenie* 5 (2022):132-144. DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0022037-3
APA	Saenko M. (2022). Semantic History of Continuants of Proto-Slavic Plъtь. Slavianovedenie* (5), pp.132-144 DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0022037-3

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