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On SLOVĚNE and the History of Slavic Patrials

ABSTRACT Uncovering the origin of SLOVĚNE, the Late Common Slavic self-designation of the Slavs, has for a long time seemed a pretty hopeless business. But so far no attempt has been made to reconstruct the prehistorical context – before the Slavic migrations – in which it must have been created. Such an attempt is made here. It pays attention to the details of the morphological prehistory of patrials (words for inhabitants), but especially to the semantic categories of patrials that can be observed in the oldest stages of attested Slavic, and which can be posited for earlier times. Against this background it is possible to hypothesize both the discourse context in which the word was created and the series of semantic changes it must have gone through since then. Section 1 reviews some recent, innovative proposals for the etymology of SLOVĚNE. Section 2 examines the morphology and semantics of patrials in Old Church Slavonic and several others of the earliest attested Slavic languages. Section 3 reconstructs the semantic categories of Common Slavic patrials. Section 4 applies the relevant findings in an etymological explication of SLOVĚNE. Section 5 discusses phonological and morphophonemic changes relevant to the patrial suffix. Section 6 is a brief summary.