Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/borna

Etymology
ESSJa treats it as as a single headword, Derksen as two (separating meanings "harrow" and "guarded entrance, barrier"), and Sławski as three ("harrow", "defended/defending object" and "membrane").

The meaning "harrow" is from, o-grade derivation from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬,. From the same root also Common Slavic, , and.

Sławski derives the set of meanings "protection, guard, defense; object of protecting, defending, gate, dam, barrier, fortification" as an action noun of the verb. Derksen legitimizes separate treatment due to the semantic difficulties of connecting Common Slavic as well as other Indo-European cognates (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) with the root.

The third separate meaning "membrane" (on the basis of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, is with uncertainty reconstructed by Sławski, with various explanations of origin.

Note that Ukrainian distinguishes from.

Noun

 * 1)  harrow
 * 2) guarded entrance, protection, barrier, defense
 * 3)  the object being defended/restrained or defending/restraining, especially fortified gate, dam, dike etc.

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