Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěviti
Proto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *ljoʔu, *leʔw, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁w-. Cognate with Latvian laũt (“to allow, stop, yield, rely on”), Lithuanian liáuti (“to stop”), Old Prussian aulaũt (“to die”).
Verb
edit*lěviti impf
Conjugation
editConjugation of *lěviti, *lěvi, *lěvitь (?, -i-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
---|---|---|---|
*lěvľenьje | *lěviti | *lěvitъ | *lěvilъ |
Participles | ||
---|---|---|
Tense | Past | Present |
Passive | *lěvľenъ | *lěvimъ |
Active | *lěvľь | *lěvę |
Aorist | Present | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *lěvixъ | *lěvi | *lěvi | *lěvľǫ | *lěviši | *lěvitь |
Dual | *lěvixově | *lěvista | *lěviste | *lěvivě | *lěvita | *lěvite |
Plural | *lěvixomъ | *lěviste | *lěvišę | *lěvimъ | *lěvite | *lěvętь |
Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Singular | *lěvľaaxъ | *lěvľaaše | *lěvľaaše | — | *lěvi | *lěvi |
Dual | *lěvľaaxově | *lěvľaašeta | *lěvľaašete | *lěvivě | *lěvita | — |
Plural | *lěvľaaxomъ | *lěvľaašete | *lěvľaaxǫ | *lěvimъ | *lěvite | — |
- Notes:
- (*)*lěvivъ is a later doublet of the past active participle
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic:
- Ukrainian: ле́вити (lévyty) (dialectal)
- Old East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Czech: leviti
References
edit- Derksen, Rick (2015) “liauti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lěviti II”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 28