Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luskati

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

• Per Derksen, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lauskāˀtei or *lauˀskāˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *loup- + *-sk-, from the same root as Proto-Slavic *lūpìti (“to peel”). Cognate with Latvian làuskāt (“to flake, to peel”) (East Baltic dialectal, where the sustained and falling tones are merged). Derksen also notes Latvian laûska (“fragment, splinter, potsherd”) but suggests it may be etymologically unrelated, derived instead from laûzt (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *louǵ-sk-.
• Vasmer, contra Derksen, endorses the connection with Latvian laûska and adds as cognates Latvian lauskas (“dandruff, husks”, pl.), Lithuanian lùskos (“rags”, pl.), lùskis (“ragamuffin”), lùkštas, lū́kštas (“apple peel, shell, husk”), Latvian laũkšķêt (“to click, to pop”), laušķinât (“to click, to crack, to knock, to make noise”).

Verb

*luskati impf

1. to peel, to shell

Inflection

Conjugation of *luskati, *luska, *luskajetь (impf., -a-, s-aorist, accent paradigm ?)

Suffix: *-ati

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*luskanьje	*luskati	*luskatъ	*luskalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*luskanъ	*luskajemъ
Active	*luskavъ	*luskaję

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*luskaxъ	*luska	*luska	*luskajǫ	*luskaješi	*luskajetь
Dual	*luskaxově	*luskasta	*luskaste	*luskajevě	*luskajeta	*luskajete
Plural	*luskaxomъ	*luskaste	*luskašę	*luskajemъ	*luskajete	*luskajǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*luskaaxъ	*luskaaše	*luskaaše	—	*luskaji	*luskaji
Dual	*luskaaxově	*luskaašeta	*luskaašete	*luskajivě	*luskajita	—
Plural	*luskaaxomъ	*luskaašete	*luskaaxǫ	*luskajimъ	*luskajite	—

Derived terms

• *luska (“peel, shell, scale, pod”)
• *luskъ (“peel, shell, pod”)
• *luspa (“peel, shell, scale, pod”)

Related terms

• *luščiti (“to peel, to shell”)
• *luzga (“peel, shell, pod”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: лу́скаць (lúskacʹ)
  • Middle Russian: лꙋскати (luskati) (17th century, to peel, to shell)
    • Russian: луска́ть (luskátʹ), лу́скать (lúskatʹ, “to peel, to shell”)
  • Ukrainian: лу́скати (lúskaty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: лю́скам (ljúskam) (meaning “to husk” has become obsolete)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: љу̏скати (“to peel, to shell”) (dialectal)

    Latin: ljȕskati (“to peel, to shell”) (dialectal)

  • Slovene: lúskati (“to peel, to shell; to clean (fish)”) (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: luskati, lúskati (“to crack a shell”)
    • Czech: louskat (“to crack a nut; to eat; to beat (lice)”)
  • Old Polish: łuskać
  • Polish: łuskać (“to peel, to shell”)
  • Slovak: lúskať (“to peel, to shell”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: łuskać (“to snap, click, crackle softly”)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*luskati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 292
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*luska”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 291
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лущи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “луска́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*luskati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 192