Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lękati

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.

• *lęcati

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”).

*lękati

1. to lay snares, to set traps
2. (transitive) to scare

• East Slavic
  • Russian: ляка́ть (ljakátʹ, “to scare, chase a fish caught in a net”) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: ляка́ти (ljakáty, “to frighten, scare”)
• South Slavic
  • Old Church Slavonic: лѩчѫтъ (ljęčǫtŭ, “they set traps, 3pl.”)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ле́цати

    Latin script: lécati

  • Slovene: lę́cati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic
  • Old Czech: léceti (“to lay snares, set traps”)
    • Czech: lécet, lícet
    • Czech: lekat (“to frighten, scare”)
  • Polish: lękać się (“to be afraid”)
  • Slovak: ľakať (“to frighten, scare”)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: lěkaś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ляка́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress