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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/leťi
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Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *légtei, from Proto-Indo-European *légʰeti, from *legʰ-.
Verb
*leťi pf[1][2][3]
- to lie, lie down
Conjugation
Conjugation of *leťi, *leže, *lęžetь (perf., intr., -C/n-, _/ox-aorist, accent paradigm ?)
| Verbal noun | Infinitive | Supine | L-participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | *leťi | *leťь | *leglъ |
| Participles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tense | Past | Present |
| Passive | — | — |
| Active | *legъ | — |
| Aorist | Present | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | *leg(ox)ъ | *leže | *leže | *lęgǫ | *lęžeši | *lęžetь |
| Dual | *leg(ox)ově | *leg(e/os)ta | *leg(e/os)te | *lęževě | *lęžeta | *lęžete |
| Plural | *leg(ox)omъ | *leg(e/os)te | *legǫ, *legošę | *lęžemъ | *lęžete | *lęgǫtь |
| Imperfect | Imperative | |||||
| Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
| Singular | — | — | — | — | *lędzi | *lędzi |
| Dual | — | — | — | *lędzěvě | *lędzěta | — |
| Plural | — | — | — | *lędzěmъ | *lędzěte | — |
- Notes:
- Aorist *legeste ⇒ *ležeste, ...
- In perfective verbs, present expresses future
Accent paradigm a in the present tense stem, b elsewhere.
Related terms
- *ležàti (“to lie”)
- *lěgati (“to lie”)
- *lȏgъ (“lair, riverbed”)
- *lonò (“breast, lap”)
- *lože (“bed”)
- *ložesno (“womb”)
- *ložiti (“to lay”)
Descendants
- East Slavic:
- Belarusian: легчы́ (ljehčý)
- Russian: лечь (lečʹ)
- Ukrainian: лягти́ (ljahtý)
- South Slavic:
- Bulgarian: ле́гна (légna)
- Macedonian: легнува (legnuva)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: лȅћи
- Latin: lȅći
- Slovene: lẹ́či (tonal orthography)
- West Slavic:
- Old Czech: léci
- Czech: lehnout
- Polish: lec
- Silesian: lygnōńć
- Slovak: ľahnúť
- Old Czech: léci
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*legti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 270: “v. (a) ‘lie (down)’”
- Olander, Thomas (2001), “legti: lęgǫ lęžetь”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a lægge sig (SA 208, 260; PR 133)”
- Snoj, Marko (2016), “lẹ́či”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar3 (in Slovene), https://fran.si: “*let'i̋, *lę̋gǫ”