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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěska

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

Cognate with Proto-Slavic *loza (“vine”), Latvian lazda (“hazel”), lagzda (“hazel”), Lithuanian lazdà (“stick, staff”), Old Prussian laxde (“hazel”).

Noun

*lě̄skà f[1][2]

  1. hazel

Declension
Declension of *lě̄skà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *lě̄skà *lě̃scě *lě̄skỳ
genitive *lě̄skỳ *lě̄skù *lě̃skъ
dative *lě̄scě̀ *lě̄skàma *lě̄skàmъ
accusative *lě̄skǫ̀ *lě̃scě *lě̄skỳ
instrumental *lě̄skòjǫ, *lě̃skǫ** *lě̄skàma *lě̄skàmī
locative *lě̄scě̀ *lě̄skù *lě̄skàsъ, *lě̄skàxъ*
vocative *lěsko *lě̃scě *lě̄skỳ
* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Descendants

Further reading
  • “ле́ска”, in Речник српскохрватскога књижевног језика (in Serbo-Croatian), Друго фототипско издање edition, volume 3, Нови Сад, Загреб: Матица српска, Матица хрватска, 1969, published 1990, page 193
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лязга́”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lě̄skà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 274: “f. ā (b) ‘hazel’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001) “lěska lěsky”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 156)”
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