Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěxa
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *laišāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂ (“following, track; furrow”), from *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”). Cognate with Lithuanian lýsė (“garden bed”), Old Prussian lyso (“field bed”), Latin līra, Proto-Germanic *laisō.
Noun
Inflection
Declension of *lě̄xà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *lě̄xà | *lě̃śě | *lě̄xỳ |
| genitive | *lě̄xỳ | *lě̄xù | *lě̃xъ |
| dative | *lě̄śě̀ | *lě̄xàma | *lě̄xàmъ |
| accusative | *lě̄xǫ̀ | *lě̃śě | *lě̄xỳ |
| instrumental | *lě̄xòjǫ, *lě̃xǫ** | *lě̄xàma | *lě̄xàmī |
| locative | *lě̄śě̀ | *lě̄xù | *lě̄xàsъ, *lě̄xàxъ* |
| vocative | *lěxo | *lě̃śě | *lě̄xỳ |
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).
Descendants
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- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “леха́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lě̄xà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 272: “f. ā (b) ‘strip of land, bed’”
- ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lěxa lěxy”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b bed for cultivation (NA 89, 141; SA 20)”