Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/laskati

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂s-sk-, from *leh₂s-. Balto-Slavic root *lāˀs-, as in Lithuanian lokšnùs (“sensitive”). Cognate with Latin lascīvus (“playful”), per Chernykh also Sanskrit लषति (laṣati, “to thirst, to want”) < *la-ls-ati.

*làskati impf

1. to caress
2. to flatter

• *làska (“caress, flattery? favor?”)

• *lasъ (“greedy”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ласкати (laskati)
    • Belarusian: ласка́ць (laskácʹ) (dialectal)
    • Russian: ласка́ть (laskátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ласка́ти (laskáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: ласкати (laskati)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: ласка́я (laskája)
  • Macedonian: ласка (laska)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ла̏скати

    Latin script: lȁskati

  • Slovene: láskati (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: laskat
  • Old Polish: łaskać
    • Polish: głaskać
  • Slovak: láskať

• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “ла́ска¹”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 468
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ла́ска”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*laskati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 38