Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lětь

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 *leh₁-ti-, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁-. Cognate with Lithuanian letas (“slow”), Latvian lets (“cheap”), Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to let”).

Adverb

*lětь

1. it is allowed

Related terms

• *lěnivъ
• *lěnъ
• *lěnь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лѣть (lětĭ)
    • Belarusian: лець (ljecʹ)
    • Russian: леть (letʹ)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лѣть (lětĭ)

    Glagolitic: ⰾⱑⱅⱐ (lětĭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Latin script: lijet

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “letas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 281
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “lětь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 275
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “леть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lětь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 18