Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luna

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 an earlier *lȗxna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

*lunà f^[1]^[2]^[3]

radiance, moonlight
moon (celestial body)
Synonym: *měsęcь

Declension

Declension of *lūnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lūnà	*lũně	*lūnỳ
genitive	*lūnỳ	*lūnù	*lũnъ
dative	*lūně̀	*lūnàma	*lūnàmъ
accusative	*lūnǫ̀	*lũně	*lūnỳ
instrumental	lūnòjǫ, lũnǫ^**	*lūnàma	*lūnàmī
locative	*lūně̀	*lūnù	lūnàsъ, lūnàxъ^*
vocative	*luno	*lũně	*lūnỳ

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** 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

*lučь (“ray”)
*lъskъ (“gloss”)

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Russian: луна́ (luná)
- Ukrainian: луна́ (luná, “echo”)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: лоуна (luna)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⰾⱆⱀⰰ (luna)
  - Bulgarian: луна́ (luná)
- Macedonian: луна (luna)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Latin script: lúna (dated, rare)
  
  Cyrillic script: лу́на (dated, rare)
- Slovene: lúna (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: luna
  - Czech: luna
- Polabian: laună, laină
- Old Polish: łuna
  - Polish: łuna
- Slovak: luna

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lunà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 291: “f. ā ‘moon’”
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “luna luny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 20; PR 135)”
^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “lúna”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*luna̋”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lunà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 291: “f. ā ‘moon’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “luna luny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 20; PR 135)”

[3] Snoj, Marko (2016) “lúna”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*luna̋”

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