Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lędo

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.

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lindá, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“heath, land”). Cognate with Old Prussian lindan (“valley”).

*lę̑do n

1. heath, arid land, uncultivated field

   Antonym: *orlьja

2. (by generalization) meadow, flatland

   Synonyms: *poľe, *orvьnina

• *lędъ m
• *lędь f (i-stem)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лѧдо (lędo)
    • Belarusian: ля́до (ljádo)
    • Russian: ля́до (ljádo) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: ля́до (ljádo, “meadow within forest”)
  • Russian: ляд m (ljad, “aridity, dearth”) (dialectal)
  • Old Novgorodian: лѧдь f (lędĭ, “heathland”)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: ле́да (léda), ля́да (ljáda) (archaic, dialectal)
  • Old Croatian: leđ (“arid, unfruitful land”) (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lado, łado (alternative writing)
    • Czech: lado
  • Polabian: ľǫdü
  • >? Polish: ląd m (“land”) (more likely a German loanword)
  • Slovak: ladom (instrumental, only in: ležať ladom)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: lědo
    • Upper Sorbian: lado

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ляда”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lędo/*lęda/*lędъ/*lędь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 44