Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ľubь

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

Related to *ľubiti (“to love”).

Noun

*ľubь f

1. love

Inflection

Declension of *ľubь (i-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ľubь	*ľubi	*ľubi
genitive	*ľubi	*ľubьju, *ľubľu*	*ľubьjь, *ľubi*
dative	*ľubi	*ľubьma	*ľubьmъ
accusative	*ľubь	*ľubi	*ľubi
instrumental	*ľubьjǫ, *ľubľǫ*	*ľubьma	*ľubьmi
locative	*ľubi	*ľubьju, *ľubľu*	*ľubьxъ
vocative	*ľubi	*ľubi	*ľubi

^* The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Synonyms

• *ľuby (“love”)

Related terms

• *ľubiti (“to love”)
• *ľubo (“or”)
• *ľuby (“love”)
• *ľubъ (“sweet, pleasant”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: Любь (Ljubʹ)
  • Russian: любь (ljubʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: любь (ljubĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰾⱓⰱⱐ (ljubĭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Unspecified script:

    Latin script: ļub

  • Slovene: ljȗb

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*ljubь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 186