Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lučiti

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.

• Per Derksen, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *laukīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *lowk-éye-ti, causative/iterative from the root *lewk- (“light”).
• Vasmer assumes the same Indo-European root and postulates the following semantic development: "light" > "see" > "look for" > "wait for" > "get" > "accomplish, reach, throw, etc.".

*lučìti^[1][2]

1. to happen (?)
2. to accomplish, find, receive, get, aim, reach, attain (?)
3. to throw, fling (?)

• *lūčà (“ray, beam”)
• *lũčь (“ray, torch”)
• *lunà (“moon”)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лꙋчити (lučiti), лꙋчитисꙗ (lučitisja)
    • Belarusian: лу́чыць (lúčycʹ) (dialectal)
    • Russian: лучи́ть (lučítʹ) (dialectal), лучи́ться (lučítʹsja) (dialectal)
    • Ukrainian: лу́чити (lúčyty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лоучити (lučiti)

    Glagolitic:

  • Bulgarian: лу́ча (lúča)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: лу́чити,^[3] лучити (Mažuranić's dictionary)

    Latin: lúčiti^[3], lučiti^[4] (Mažuranić's dictionary)

  • Slovene: lučīti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: lučit
  • Old Polish: łuczyć
  • Slovak: lúčiť

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лучи́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*leu̯k-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 418–419
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lučiti (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 162