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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/lankás

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”).[1]

Noun

*lankás m

  1. bow

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: lūks
    • Latvian: loks
    • Lithuanian: lañkas
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: lunkis (“angle”)
  • Proto-Slavic: *lǫ̑kъ (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lǫ̑kъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 289: “m. o (c) ‘bow’”
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