Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/listъ

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.

Cognate with Lithuanian lai̇̃škas, láiškas (“letter”), Latvian laiska (“leaf of a flax stalk”), laiksne (“white water-lily”), and Old Prussian lāiskas (“book”). Baltic forms require pre-form of Proto-Balto-Slavic *laiskas, while Slavic forms require *leistas. Ultimately possibly from Proto-Indo-European *leyd- (“to let”).

Despite similar phonetics and semantics, apparently unrelated to Proto-Germanic *līstǭ (“strip, edge, list”) (whence English list).

*lȋstъ m

1. leaf

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: листъ (listŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: листъ (list)
      • Belarusian: ліст (list)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: лист (lyst)
      • Ukrainian: лист (lyst)
    • Russian: лист (list)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: листъ (listŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⰹⱄⱅⱏ (listŭ)

  • Bulgarian: лист (list)
  • Macedonian: лист (list)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ли̑ст

    Latin script: lȋst

  • Slovene: lȋst (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: list
  • Old Polish: list
    • Polish: list
    • Silesian: list
  • Old Slovak: list
    • Pannonian Rusyn: лїст (ljist)
    • Slovak: list
  • Polabian: laist
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: lëst
    • Slovincian: lëst
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: list
    • Lower Sorbian: list

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лист”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*listъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 147
• Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “Proto-Slavic/listъ”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 378
• “laiškas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė , 2007–2012