Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěnь

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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěnь

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

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Noun

*lěnь f[1]

1. laziness

Declension

Declension of *lěnь (i-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*lěnь	*lěni	*lěni
Accusative	*lěnь	*lěni	*lěni
Genitive	*lěni	*lěnьju, *lěňu*	*lěnьjь, *lěni*
Locative	*lěni	*lěnьju, *lěňu*	*lěnьxъ
Dative	*lěni	*lěnьma	*lěnьmъ
Instrumental	*lěnьjǫ, *lěňǫ*	*lěnьma	*lěnьmi
Vocative	*lěni	*lěni	*lěni

^* 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).

Related terms

• *lěnivъ
• *lěnъ
• *lětь

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: лень (lenʹ, “laziness”)
  • Ukrainian: лінь (linʹ, “laziness, lazy person”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лѣнь (lěnĭ, “laziness”)

    Glagolitic: ⰾⱑⱀⱐ (lěnĭ)

  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ли̏јен (“laziness”)

    Latin: lȉjen

  • Slovene: lė̑n (“laziness”)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: léň (“laziness”) (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Polish: leń (“lazy person”)
  • Slovak: lieň (“laziness”) (poetic, dialectal)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: lěni

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “лень”, 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), “*lěnь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 273: “f. i ‘laziness’”