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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lisa

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 earlier *līpsā, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *leipśāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ulp- ~ *h₂wl(o)p- (“red fox”). For details see Latvian lapsa (“fox”).

Noun

*lisa f

  1. fox

Derived terms

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ліса́ (lisá)
    • Ukrainian: ли́са (lýsa)
    • Middle Russian: лиса (lisa) (17ᵗʰ cent.)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: лиса (lisa)
      Glagolitic script: ⰾⰺⱄⰰ (lisa)
    • Bulgarian: ли́са (lísa); ли́съ (lísǎ) (dialectal)
    • Macedonian: лиса (lisa)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lisa I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 137
  • Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lisa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 279: “m. ā ‘fox’”
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