Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lězti

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *lḗˀźtei, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁ǵʰ- (“to crawl on the ground; low”).

Related to Latvian lẽzêt (“to slide”), Old Prussian līse (“(he) crawls”), Old Norse lágr (“low”), English low, Ancient Greek λαχύς (lakhús, “low”).

Verb

*lě̀zti impf

1. to crawl
2. to climb

Inflection

Related terms

• *làziti
• *lazъ
• *lěstva
• *lězivo
• *lěstьnica

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лѣзти (lězti)
    • Belarusian: ле́зці (ljézci)
    • Russian: лезть (leztʹ)
    • Ukrainian: лі́зти (lízty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: възлѣсти (vŭzlěsti)m излѣсти (izlěsti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: лѣ́зѫ (lě́zǫ) (Gerov's dictionary); ля́за (ljáza)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): lȉsti
  • Slovene: lẹ́sti (tonal orthography)
    • Rovte dialect (Črni vrh, Idrija): lȩ̏st
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lézt
    • Czech: lézt
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): lízt
  • Polabian: lezĕ (3sg.)
  • Old Polish: leźć
    • Polish: leźć
  • Slovak: liezť
  • Slovincian: lêsc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: lězć
    • Lower Sorbian: lězć

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ле́зу”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lězti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 36

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