Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/leščь

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 edit

Etymology edit

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Compare Latvian leste.

Noun edit

*leščь m

bream, carp bream

Inflection edit

Declension of *leščь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*leščь	*lešča	*lešči
genitive	*lešča	*lešču	*leščь
dative	*lešču	*leščema	*leščemъ
accusative	*leščь	*lešča	*leščę̇
instrumental	leščьmь, leščemь^*	*leščema	*lešči
locative	*lešči	*lešču	*leščixъ
vocative	*lešču	*lešča	*lešči

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: лещь (leščĭ)
  - Old Ruthenian: лещъ (lešč), лєщъ (lješč), лѧщъ (ljašč); лящъ (ljašč)
    - Belarusian: лешч (lješč); ляшч (ljašč) (dialectal)
    - Ukrainian: лящ (ljašč); ляш (ljaš), лещ (lešč), ліщ (lišč), леш (leš), лешч (lešč), л'е̂шч (lʺêšč) (dialectal)
  - Middle Russian: лещъ (lešč)
    - Russian: лещ (lešč); лящ (ljašč) (dialectal)
      - → Slovak: lešť (dialectal)
South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: лещь (leštʹ) (dialectal)
West Slavic:
- Old Polish: leszcz
  - Polish: leszcz
    - → Czech: lešť

Further reading edit

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*leščь I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 142
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1989), “лящ¹”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 3 (Кора – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 345
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Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лещ”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress