Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glumъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʰlow-m-, from the root *gʰlew-. Cognate with Old Norse glaumr (“jubilation”), gleyma (“to forget, to jubilate, to make merry”), Old English glēam (“jubilation, joy”), Ancient Greek χλεύη (khleúē, “joke, mockery”), χλευάζω (khleuázō, “to joke”), Lithuanian glaudas, glauda (“fun”) (Daouksha's dictionary), gláudoti (“to joke”), Latvian glaudât (“to joke”).
Noun
*glumъ m
Inflection
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *glumъ | *gluma | *glumi |
| genitive | *gluma | *glumu | *glumъ |
| dative | *glumu | *glumoma | *glumomъ |
| accusative | *glumъ | *gluma | *glumy |
| instrumental | *glumъmь, *glumomь* | *glumoma | *glumy |
| locative | *glumě | *glumu | *gluměxъ |
| vocative | *glume | *gluma | *glumi |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Related terms
noun
- *gluma
verb
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Cyrillic script: глоумъ (glumŭ)
- Bulgarian: глум (glum)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic
- → Romanian: glumă
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “глум”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress