Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lyzgavъ

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

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, *lyzgati +‎ *-avъ.

Adjective

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*lyzgavъ[1]

  1. slippery

Declension

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Descendants

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  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: лизгав (lizgav) (dialectal), хлъ́згав (hlǎ́zgav)
    • Macedonian: лизгав (lizgav)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: лизгав
      Latin script: lizgav

References

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  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lyzgavъ(jь)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 59