blǫ̑dъ

blǫ̑dъ Grammatical information: m. o Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `delusion'

Page in Trubačev: II 126-127

Old Church Slavic:

blǫdъ `debauchery, depravity, adultery' [m o]

Russian:

blud `lechery, fornication, (dial.) evil spirit that leads the drunk astray' [m o]

Czech:

blud `mistake, delusion, insanity' [m o];

bloud `fool' [m o] \{1\}

Slovak:

blud `mistake, delusion, insanity' [m o]

Polish:

bɫąd `mistake, delusion' [m o], bɫędu [Gens]

Serbo-Croatian:

blȗd `mistake, delusion, lechery, adultery' [m o]

Slovene:

blǫ̑d `mistake, delusion, voluptuousness' [m o]

Bulgarian:

blud `fornication, adultery, time of unrest' [m o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: blondos

Lithuanian:

blañdas `cloudiness, obscuration of mind or eyesight, drowsiness' [m o];

blandà `fog' [f ā] 4;

blandùs `dim, cloudy, thick (soup)' [adj u]

Latvian:

bluods `evil spirit that leads one astray, wood-goblin' [m o]

Page in Pokorny: 157

Comments: Deverbative o-stem with o-grade in the root of *bʰlen^d-. Skt. bradhná- (RV+) `pale ruddy, yellowish, bay' [adj], which has been assumed to be cogtyy o- rather belongs together with *bronъ.

Other cognates:

OIc. blundr `slumber' [m o]

Notes:

\{1\} According to Verweij (1994: 52), the originally long root vowel of Cz. bloud may be a vestige of the accent paradigm to which *blǫdъ belonged prior to the operation of Illič-Svityč's law.