Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/lankás

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Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

An o-stem derivative of *lenk- (“to bend”), with no certain cognates outside of Balto-Slavic.[1][2] See *lénktei (“to bend; to twine”) for more.

Noun

*lankás m

  1. bow

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: lūks
    • Latvian: loks
    • Lithuanian: lañkas
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: lunkis (“angle”)
  • Proto-Slavic: *lǫ̑kъ (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “lankas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 273
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lǫ̑kъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 289: “m. o (c) ‘bow’”
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