Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lijь

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 *lьjati, from *liti (“to pour”).

Noun

*lijь m

1. funnel

Declension

Declension of *lijь (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lijь	*lija	*liji
genitive	*lija	*liju	*lijь
dative	*liju	*lijema	*lijemъ
accusative	*lijь	*lija	*liję̇
instrumental	*lijьmь, *lijemь*	*lijema	*liji
locative	*liji	*liju	*lijixъ
vocative	*liju	*lija	*liji

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лии (lii)
    • Russian: лиёк (lijók)
• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ли̏ј, ли̏јак

    Latin: lȉj, lȉjak

  • Slovene: lȋj
• West Slavic:
  • Old Polish: lej, lij
    • Polish: lej

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lijь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 104