bel(e)nъ

bel(e)nъ; belená; bolnъ \{1\} \{2\} Grammatical information: m. o; f. ā; m. o Proto-Slavic meaning: `henbane'

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Church Slavic:

belenъ (RuCS) `henbane' [m o]

Russian:

belen (dial.) `henbane' [m o];

belená `henbane' [f ā]

Czech:

blín `henbane' [m o];

blim (dial.) `henbane' [m o]

Old Czech:

blén `henbane' [m o]

Slovak:

blen `henbane, bitterness' [m o] \{2\}

Polish:

blen `henbane' [m o] \{3\}

Old Polish:

bleń `henbane' [m jo] \{4\}

Serbo-Croatian:

blȇn (rare) `henbane' [m o];

blȇm (rare) `henbane' [m o];

belèna `fool, idiot' [f ā];

blan (17th c.) `furibundus' [m o] \{5\}

Slovene:

blẹ̀n `henbane' [m o], blẹ́na [Gens]

Bulgarian:

bljan `day-dream' [m o];

blen `day-dream' [m o]

Macedonian:

blen (poet.) `(day-)dream' [m o]

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰel-(e)n-o-

IE meaning: henbane

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Other cognates:

OE beolone, beolene, belene `henbane' [f];

OS bilene `henbane' [f];

Dan. (early) bylne, buln-urt `henbane';

Gaul. βελενουντίαν [Accs] `henbane';

Gaul. BELENO [dsg] `name of a divinity' \{6\}

Notes:

\{1\} Ru. belen- cannot reflect *beln-, which would regularly yield bolon-. \{2\} Alongside bielian. \{3\} Alongside bielun. \{4\} In Old Polish we find bleń, bielun, bieluń, bielon. According to Sɫawski (SP I: Q), blen is a borrowing from Czech. \{5\} Both blȇn and blȇm are rarely attested. The form with m can be traced to Stulli's dictionary. \{6\} Besides the n-stem *bʰel(e)no-, there was an s-stem *bʰel-es-, e.g. OHG bilisa, bilesa, bilsa [f], MDu. bilse, Spanish belesa, velesa, and probably W bela, bele, all meaning `henbane' (see Schrijver 1999).