Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glьjь

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.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *gl̥h₁y-ó-s, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y-.^[1]

*glьjь m^[1]

1. clay, loam

• *glěnь, *glěnъ
• *glěvъ, *glěvь, *glěva
• *glina
• *glistъ, *glista
• *gliva

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: *глеи (*glei)
    • Old Ruthenian: глей m (hlej, “sticky clay”)
      • Belarusian: глей m (hljej, “silt”) (dialectal)
      • Ukrainian: глей m (hlej, “sticky clay, silt; mud; swamp”); ґлей (glej, “glue; resin”), глей m (hlej, “white clay”) (dialectal)
        • → English: gley
    • Russian: глей m (glej, “clay, gleysol”), гле́я f (gléja, “clay; mud”) (dialectal)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: гле̑ј m (“gley”)

    Latin script: glȇj m (“gley”)

• West Slavic:
  • Czech: gľej m, glej m (“glue; resin”) (dialectal)
  • Polish: glej m (“gleysol”)
  • Slovak: glej m (“wood glue”); glia, glie (“glue”) (dialectal)