Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/lankás
Proto-Balto-Slavic edit
Etymology edit
An o-stem derivative of *lenk- (“to bend”), with no certain cognates outside of Balto-Slavic.[1][2] See *lénktei (“to bend; to twine”) for more.
Noun edit
*lankás m
Descendants edit
- East Baltic:
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: lunkis (“angle”)
- Proto-Slavic: *lǫ̑kъ (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “lankas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 273
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lǫ̑kъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 289: “m. o (c) ‘bow’”