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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/liti

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-Balto-Slavic *leˀitei, from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (to flow).[1]

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian líeti, Latvian liêt, Old Prussian pralieiton (shed).

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek λείβω (leíbō, to shed, to pour), Middle Welsh dillyd (to pour out).

Verb

*lìti impf[2][3]

  1. to pour

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: лити (liti)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic: лити (liti)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: ле́я (léja)
    • Macedonian: лее (lee)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: ли̏ти
      Latin: lȉti
      • Chakavian (Orbanići): lȉti
    • Slovene: líti (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: líti
    • Polabian: lėjĕ (3sg)
    • Old Polish: lić
    • Slovak: liať
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: leć
      • Lower Sorbian: laś

Further reading

References

  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 664-65
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 280: “v. ‘pour’”
  3. Olander, Thomas (2001), liti: lijǫ lijetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c (SA 204, 234, 237; PR 139)”
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