< Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/letъ
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lekt-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lek-.
Noun
*letъ m
- flight
Inflection
Declension of *letъ (hard o-stem)
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | *letъ | *leta | *leti |
| Accusative | *letъ | *leta | *lety |
| Genitive | *leta | *letu | *letъ |
| Locative | *letě | *letu | *letěxъ |
| Dative | *letu | *letoma | *letomъ |
| Instrumental | *letъmь, *letomь* | *letoma | *lety |
| Vocative | *lete | *leta | *leti |
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: лёт (ljot)
- Russian: лёт (ljot)
- Ukrainian: лiт (lit)
- South Slavic:
- ⇒ Bulgarian: по́лет (pólet)
- Macedonian: лет (let)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ле̑т
- Latin: lȇt
- Slovene: lȅt (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Czech: let
- Polish: lot
- Slovak: let
Further reading
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “лете́ть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress