Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/glumъ

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

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

1. mockery?, amusement?, joke?

Inflection

Declension of *glumъ (hard o-stem)

	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

• *glumiti

 

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: глум (hlum)
  • Russian: глум (glum) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: глум (hlum)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: глоумъ (glumŭ)

  • Bulgarian: глум (glum)
• 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