Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/letъ

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 *lekt-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lek- (“jump, scuttle”).

Noun

*letъ m

1. flight

Inflection

Declension of *letъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*letъ	*leta	*leti
genitive	*leta	*letu	*letъ
dative	*letu	*letoma	*letomъ
accusative	*letъ	*leta	*lety
instrumental	*letъmь, *letomь*	*letoma	*lety
locative	*letě	*letu	*letěxъ
vocative	*lete	*leta	*leti

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: лёт (ljot)
  • Middle Russian: летъ (let)
    • Russian: лёт (ljot), (dialectal) лет (let), леть (letʹ)
  • Ukrainian: літ (lit), (dialectal) лет (let), льот (lʹot)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: лет (let)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: по́лет (pólet)
  • Macedonian: лет (let), лето n (leto)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ле̑т, лијет, лѐто n, (dialectal) ле̣̑т

    Latin script: lȇt, lijet, lèto n, (dialectal) lẹ̑t

  • Slovene: lȅt (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Czech: let
  • Polish: lot
  • Slovak: let
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: lot
    • Slovincian: lôt
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: lět
    • Upper Sorbian: lět

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*letъ/*letь(?)/*leto”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 150
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лете́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress