blě̑dъ

blě̑dъ Grammatical information: adj. o Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `pale'

Page in Trubačev: II 111-112

Old Church Slavic:

blědъ `pale' [adj o]

Russian:

bledój (dial.) `pale' [adj o];

blëdyj (dial.) `pale' [adj o]

Ukrainian:

blidýj `pale' [adj o]

Czech:

bledý `pale' [adj o]

Slovak:

bledý `pale' [adj o]

Polish:

blady `pale' [adj o]

Slovincian:

bladḯ `pale' [adj o]

Upper Sorbian:

blědy `pale, bright' [adj o]

Lower Sorbian:

blědy `pale' [adj o]

Serbo-Croatian:

blȉjed `pale' [adj o], blijèda [Nomsf];

Čak. blȋd (Vrgada) `pale' [adj o], blīdȁ [Nomsf], blȋdo [Nomsn];

Čak. blⁱȇt (Orbanići) `pale' [adj o], blⁱedȁ [Nomsf]

Slovene:

blẹ̑d `pale' [adj o]

Bulgarian:

bled `pale' [adj o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: bloiʔd-(u̯)ó-

Lithuanian:

blaĩvas `whitish, blue, sober' [adj o] 4

Indo-European reconstruction: bʰloid-(u̯)o-

Page in Pokorny: 160

Comments: In view of Winter's law, we would expect to find traces of a glottalic element in Balto-Slavic. The accentuation of Lith. blaivas - the Proto-Slavic form is mobile and therefore inconclusive - offers no evidence for an original acute, however. Pokorny's reconstruction *bhlǝido-s is impossible for Slavic and *bhleh₂ido-s is incompatible with the mobile accentuation of the adjective in Balto-Slavic.

Other cognates:

OE blāt `pale' [adj];

OHG bleizza `pallor' [f]