bȏlь

bȏlь Grammatical information: f. i Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `pain'

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Old Church Slavic:

bolь `sick person' [m i]

Russian:

bol' `pain' [f i]

Belorussian:

bol' `pain' [m jo], bólju [Gens]

Ukrainian:

bil' `pain, suffering' [m jo], bólju [Gens]

Czech:

bol `sorrow, grief' [m o]

Slovak:

bôl' `sorrow, grief' [m o]

Polish:

ból `pain, sorrow, grief' [m o], bólu [Gens] \{1\}

Kashubian:

b^u̯ȯl `pain' [m o], b^u̯ȯlu \{1\}

Slovincian:

bȯ́ul `pain' [m o], bȯ́ulu̇_

Upper Sorbian:

ból `pain' [f jā], bole [Gens]

Lower Sorbian:

bol `pain, grief' [f i], boli [Gens]

Serbo-Croatian:

bȏl `pain, illness' [f i], bȍli [Gens];

Čak. bȏl (Vrgada, Novi) `pain, illness' [f i], bȍli [Gens];

Čak. b^uȏl (Orbanići) `pain, illness' [f i], boli [Gens]

Slovene:

bȏɫ `pain, suffering, grief' [f i], bȏli [Gens];

bȏɫ `pain, suffering, grief' [m o]

Bulgarian:

bol (dial.) `pain, sick person' [m o];

bol' (dial.) `sick person, illness' [m o]

Macedonian:

bol `pain' [f]

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰol(H)-i-

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Comments: A deverbative of -> *bolěti.

Other cognates:

OCorn. bal `illness' [f];

OIc. bǫl `misfortune, damage' [n], bǫlve [Dats];

Go. balwawesei `wickedness' [f];

OE bealu `woe, harm, wickedness' [n]

Notes:

\{1\} Sɫawski mentions ból (17th/18th c.) `devil, demon', bolu [Gens] (SP I: 315). A variant with the expected short root vowel is also attested in dialects and in Kashubian (Gens -olu alongside -ȯlu mentioned in Lorentz PW).