Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/liti

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-Balto-Slavic *leˀitei, from Proto-Indo-European *leyH- (“to pour”).

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian li̇́eti, Latvian liêt, Old Prussian pralieiton (“shed”).

Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek λείβω (leíbō, “to shed, to pour”), Middle Welsh dillyd (“to pour out”).

*lìti impf

1. to pour

• *lȏjь
• *lьjati

• *linǫti
• *sъlojь
• *lijь
• *litva

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лити (liti)
    • Belarusian: ліць (licʹ)
    • Russian: лить (litʹ)
    • Ukrainian: ли́ти (lýty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: лити (liti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: ле́я (léja)
  • Macedonian: лее (lee)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ли̏ти

    Latin script: lȉti

    • Chakavian (Orbanići): lȉti
  • Slovene: líti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: líti
    • Czech: lít
  • Old Polish: lać
    • Polish: lać
    • Silesian: lŏć
  • Old Slovak:
    • Pannonian Rusyn: ляц (ljac)
    • Slovak: liať
  • Polabian: *lait; ⇒ lėjĕ (3sg), laită (participle), lėjonĕ (gerund)
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: lôc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: leć
    • Lower Sorbian: laś

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*liti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 157
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “лить”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa