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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/laziti

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 *loh₁ǵ-ey-, causative/iterative of *leh₁ǵ-. Cognate with Latvian lẽzêt (to slide), Old Prussian līse ((he) crawls, 3sg.), Old Norse lágr (low), English low.

Verb

*làziti[1][2]

  1. to creep, to crawl

Inflection

  • *lě̀zti (to creep, to crawl)
  • *lazъ (plowed field? narrow passage?)
  • *lazivo (ladder)
  • *lazidlo (ladder)

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: лазити (laziti)
    • Old Novgorodian: ла́ꙁити (láziti)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: lazit
    • Polabian: lozĕ
    • Old Polish: łazić
    • Slovak: laziť
    • Slovincian: ḷãzĕc
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: łazyć
      • Lower Sorbian: łazyś

Further reading

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*làziti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 269: “v. (a) ‘crawl, creep’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), laziti: lazjǫ lazitь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a klatre (PR 133)”
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