Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lomiti

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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 *lamˀ-, from Proto-Indo-European *lemH-, *h₃lemH-.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian lémti (to decide, to determine), Latvian lem̃t (to decide, to determine), Old Prussian lembtwey, limtwey, limtwei (to break).

Per Vasmer, cognate with Old Norse lemja (to beat). Compare English lame.

Verb

*lomìti impf[1][2]

  1. to break

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ломи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lomiti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 16

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lomìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 284:v. (b) ‘break’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lomiti: lomjǫ lomitь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:b brække (PR 137)