Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lьnǫti

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.

• *lьpnǫti

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lip- + Proto-Slavic *-nǫti, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp-.

Cognate with Lithuanian li̇̀pti (“to stick”) (1sg. limpù), Latvian lipt (“to stick”), Sanskrit लिम्पति (limpáti, “to smear”), Ancient Greek λιπαίνω (lipaínō, “to oil”), Hittite (lip-, “to smear”). Pokorny also links various other words with less obvious semantic connection, e.g. Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌾𐌰𐌽 (bilaibjan, “to leave, to abandon”), English leave, English live, Latin lippus (“festering”). See also *lěpiti.

*lьnǫti impf

1. to stick

• *lěpiti (“to smear, to stick”)
• *lě̑pъ (“glue”)
• *lě̑pъ (“beautiful”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: льнѫти (lĭnǫti)
    • Belarusian: ільну́ць (ilʹnúcʹ)
    • Russian: льнуть (lʹnutʹ)
    • Ukrainian: льну́ти (lʹnúty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: прильнѫти (prilĭnǫti, “to stick”), 1sg. прильнѫ (prilĭnǫ)

    Glagolitic script:

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: прио̀нути

    Latin script: priònuti

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lnúti, 1sg. lnu
    • Czech: lnout
  • Old Polish: *lnąć
    • Polish: lgnąć, lnąć (Middle Polish)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: lnąc
    • Slovincian: lnõc
  • Slovak: ľnúť

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• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “льнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 670–671
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lьpnǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 92