Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lučь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lučь

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 *laukis, from Proto-Indo-European *lowkis, from *lewk- (“white; light; bright”).

Baltic cognates include Old Prussian luckis (“torch, log”).

Noun

*lũčь f[1][2]

1. ray
2. torch

Inflection

Declension of *lũčь (i-stem, accent paradigm b)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*lũčь	*lūčì	*lūčì
Accusative	*lũčь	*lūčì	*lūčì
Genitive	*lũči	*lũčьju, *luču*	*lūčь̀jь, *lũči*
Locative	*lũči	*lũčьju, *luču*	*lūčь̀xъ
Dative	*lūčì	*lũčьma	*lūčь̀mъ
Instrumental	*lũčьjǫ, *lũčǫ*	*lũčьma	*lũčьmī
Vocative	*luči	*lūčì	*lūčì

^* 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).

Derived terms

• *lučajь
• *lučina
• *lučьje
• *lučьnъ
  • *lučьnica
  • *lučьnikъ

Related terms

• *luča (“ray, beam”)
• *lučiti
• *lučivo

Descendants

• Church Slavonic: лучь (lučĭ) (Russian)

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лучь (lučĭ)
    • Belarusian: луч (luč)
    • Russian: луч (luč)
    • Ukrainian: луч (luč)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лучь (lučĭ), лоуча (luča)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: луч (luč), лъч (lǎč)
  • Macedonian: лач (lač)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: лу̑ч

    Latin: lȗč

  • Slovene: lūč (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lúč
    • Czech: louč
  • Polish: łucz, łuczywo
  • Slovak: lúč

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lučь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 163
• Chernykh, P. (1993), “луч”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1 (а – пантомима), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 496
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “луч”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lúčь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 290: “f. i (b) ‘ray, torch’”
2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “lučь luča”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b stråle (SA 126; RPT 97, 101f.)”