Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mlinъ

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

Equivalent to *melti +‎ *-inъ.

Noun

*mlinъ m

pancake

Inflection

Declension of *mlinъ (hard o-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*mlinъ	*mlina	*mlini
genitive	*mlina	*mlinu	*mlinъ
dative	*mlinu	*mlinoma	*mlinomъ
accusative	*mlinъ	*mlina	*mliny
instrumental	mlinъmь, mlinomь^*	*mlinoma	*mliny
locative	*mlině	*mlinu	*mliněxъ
vocative	*mline	*mlina	*mlini

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: млинъ (mlinŭ)
  - Belarusian: блін (blin), dialectally млін (mlin)
    - → Latvian: bliņas, blìnis, blīns
    - → Lithuanian: blỹnas
  - Russian: блин (blin) (see there for further descendants)
  - ⇒ Ukrainian: млине́ць (mlynécʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  - Church Slavonic: млинъ (mlinŭ)
  - Russian Church Slavonic: млинъ (mlinŭ)
- Bulgarian: млин (mlin) (dialectal)
- Serbo-Croatian: (regional)
  Cyrillic script: мли̏нац
  
  Latin script: mlȉnac
- Slovene: mlínec
West Slavic:
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: mlin, mlinc (dialectal)
  - Upper Sorbian: mlinc, mlěnc, mlyjńc, mlojnc, mlěńic, mlyńic, blinc, blins, plinc, plins
    - → German: Plinse, Plinze, Plinz, Plins, Flinze, Flinse, Blinse, Blinze, Blinsn
      - → Old Prussian: plinxne
    - → Yiddish: בלינצע (blintse)
      - → English: blintz
    - → Samogitian: plincis

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mlinъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 319
Tenhagen, Wolfgang (1995) Frühe lexikalische Belege im Domostroj (Veröffentlichungen des Slavisch-Baltischen Seminars der Universität Münster; 8) (in German), Münster · Hamburg · London: Lit Verlag, →ISBN, pages 65–67
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “блин”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress