badli

badli Grammatical information: m. ī Proto-Slavic meaning: `enchanter, healer, physician'

Page in Trubačev: I 150

Old Church Slavic:

balii `physician' [m iā];

bali (Cloz.) `physician' [m iā] \{1\}

Church Slavic:

bali (OSln.: FrD) `healer, Saviour' [m iā]

Old Russian:

balii `physician, enchanter' [m iā];

balija `physician, enchanter' [m iā]

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰeh₂-dʰl-

IE meaning: enchanter

Page in Pokorny: 105

Comments: There is no direct evidence for a suffix *dʰl-ьji-, but the form bali from the Freising Fragments could be regarded as counter-evidence, as dl is regularly retained in this dialect, cf. modliti. It is not impossible, however, that bali is of Church Slavic origin. Trubačëv bases his reconstructions *badlьji and *badlovati chiefly on derivatives of the type of OCz. předlí `spinster', švadlí `needlewoman'. According to the ESSJa (I 137-138), further evidence for a suffix *-dʰl- is provided by SCr. bȁjalo m. `sorcerer', Ru. dial. bájala m.f. `talker, chatterer, story-teller', which may be transformations of *badlьji . Meillet's idea (1902-1905: I 417) that *bali is based on a derivative in -l- deserves consideration.

Notes:

\{1\} Cf. balovanije `treatment', balьstvo `cure, medicine'.