Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lemešь
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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 *lémešis. Cognates include Latvian lemesis (“sharp plough”), Lithuanian lẽmežis (“wooden part of the plough”), lãmežis (“wooden part of the plough”) and Proto-Slavic *lomìti (“to break”).
Noun
Inflection
Declension of *lemešь (soft o-stem)
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | *lemešь | *lemeša | *lemeši |
| genitive | *lemeša | *lemešu | *lemešь |
| dative | *lemešu | *lemešema | *lemešemъ |
| accusative | *lemešь | *lemeša | *lemešę̇ |
| instrumental | *lemešьmь, *lemešemь* | *lemešema | *lemeši |
| locative | *lemeši | *lemešu | *lemešixъ |
| vocative | *lemešu | *lemeša | *lemeši |
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.
Alternative forms
Synonyms
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- Non-Slavic:
- → Hungarian: lemez
Further reading
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lemešь/*lemežь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 108
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lemešь; *lemežь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 271: “m. jo ‘ploughshare, plough’”