glīstà

glístъ; glīstà Grammatical information: m. o; f. ā Accent paradigm: b Proto-Slavic meaning: `worm'

Page in Trubačev: VI 128-129

Russian:

glist `intestinal worm' [m o], glistá [Gens]

Belorussian:

hlist `intestinal worm' [m o], hlistá [Gens]

Ukrainian:

hlyst `intestinal worm' [m o], hlystá [Gens]

Czech:

hlíst `intestinal worm' [m o];

hlísta `intestinal worm' [f ā]

Slovak:

hlísta `intestinal worm' [f ā]

Polish:

glista `intestinal worm, earth-worm' [f ā]

Serbo-Croatian:

glísta `intestinal worm, earth-worm' [f ā];

Čak. glȋsta (Orbanići) `worm' [f ā];

Čak. glȋs (Orbanići) `worm' [f i], glȋsti [f i]

Slovene:

glísta `intestinal worm, earth-worm' [f ā]

Bulgarian:

glist `intestinal worm, earth-worm' [m o]

Lithuanian:

glaĩstas `layer of clay, plaster' [m o] 2/4

Indo-European reconstruction: glH₁it-to-??

Comments: Though masculine o-stems belonging to AP (b) in principle continue old neuters, I am uncertain of this holds for original oxytona, i.e. words that were already oxytone before Dybo's law. Here the reconstruction of an old oxytonon may account for the unexpected absence of a laryngeal in the root, which can now be attributed to the Early Slavic loss of laryngeals in pretonic position. In view of Hirt's law, which would have generated root stress, a reconstruction with a zero grade (*glh¹it-tó) is preferable. The semantically different Lith. glaĩstas probably contains a old neuter.