Из рада на једнотомнoм етимолошком речнику српског језика : клòнути ‘нагнути се, погнути се; ослабити, малаксати; изгубити наду’

Abstract

he paper deals with SCr verb klonuti ‘to lean, bend; become weak, exhausted; despair, be- come discouraged’ from the standpoints of semantics, word-formation and etymology. The en- tire relevant dialectal material is presented as an argument in favor of the already existing etymological solution deriving SCr klonuti (also S| kloniti, OCz klonuti) from PSI *klopneti. Two possible interpretations are proposed: either *klopnoti < **klopéti ‘to hang’, meaning ‘to start hanging’ (cf. kysnoti < kyséti) or *klopneti < **klop» adj. ‘hanging’ (cf. *giъxnoti < *gluxъ).