Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lětь

This Proto-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-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *leh₁-ti-, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁(y)-. Cognate with Lithuanian letas (“slow”), Latvian lets (“cheap”), Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to let”).

Adverb

*lětь

it is allowed

Related terms

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: лѣть (lětĭ)
  - Belarusian: лець (ljecʹ)
  - Russian: леть (letʹ)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: лѣть (lětĭ)
  
  Glagolitic: ⰾⱑⱅⱐ (lětĭ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin: lijet

References

Derksen, Rick (2015), “letas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 281
Derksen, Rick (2008), “lětь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 275
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “леть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lětь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 18

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