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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lьnǫti

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

Alternative forms

  • *lьpnǫti

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lip- + Proto-Slavic *-nǫti, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp-.

Cognate with Lithuanian lìpti (to stick) (1sg. limpù), Latvian lipt (to stick), Sanskrit लिम्पति (limpáti, to smear), Ancient Greek λιπαίνω (lipaínō, to oil), Hittite [script needed] (lip-, to smear). Pokorny also links various other words with less obvious semantic connection, e.g. Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bilaibjan, to leave, to abandon), English leave, English live, Latin lippus (festering). See also *lěpiti.

Verb

*lьnǫti impf

  1. to stick

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: льнꙋти (lĭnuti)
      • Belarusian: ільну́ць (ilʹnúcʹ)
      • Russian: льнуть (lʹnutʹ)
      • Ukrainian: льну́ти (lʹnúty)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: прильнѫти (prilĭnǫti, to stick), 1sg. прильнѫ (prilĭnǫ)
      Glagolitic script: [Term?]
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: прио̀нути
      Latin script: priònuti[1]
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: lnúti, 1sg. lnu
      • Czech: lnout
    • Polish: lgnąć
    • Slovincian: lnõc

References

  1. Tomislav Maretić, editor (1936-1952), “prionuti”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 12, Zagreb: JAZU, page 77
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “льнуть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 497
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lьnǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 297
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “льнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 670–671
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lьpnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 92
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