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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/li

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *lei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (pronominal root). Cognates include Lithuanian -li (as in nùli (“now, just now”), juoli (“especially, all the more so”)), Latvian -lei, -lai (as in nulei, nulai (“now, just now”)), and probably Lithuanian lai (“let”) and Latvian lai (“let”). Other cognates include Latin olle.

Particle

*li

  1. question-forming interrogative particle

Conjunction

*li

  1. if

Derived terms
  • *li že
  • *či li

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: ли (li), ль (lĭ)
      • Old Ruthenian: ли (li), ль (lʹ)
        • Belarusian: лi (li)
        • Ukrainian: ли (ly) (dialectal)
      • Russian: ли (li), ль (lʹ); ле (le) (dialectal)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: ли (li)
      Glagolitic script: ⰾⰺ (li)
    • Bulgarian: ли (li)
    • Macedonian: ли (li)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ли
      Latin script: li
    • Slovene: li (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: li
    • Old Polish: li
      • Polish: li (obsolete)
    • Slovak: li
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: li
      • Lower Sorbian: li

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), chapter *LI, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 67
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “ли”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 385
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ли”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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