Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/leyp-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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-Indo-European

Root

*leyp-

to stick
fat or sticky substance

Derived terms

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*li-né-p-ti ~ *li-m-p-énti (nasal-infix present)
- Indo-Iranian: *limpáti
  - Indo-Aryan: *limpáti
    - Sanskrit: लिम्पति (limpáti, “smear, pollute”)
*loyp-éye-ti (causative)
- Balto-Slavic: *loip-
  - Lithuanian: lipìnti, láipioti
  - Slavic: *lěpiti (“to smear, stick”)
    - South Slavic:
      - Old Church Slavonic: прилѣпити (prilěpiti)
      - Serbo-Croatian: lepiti
    - West Slavic:
      - Czech: lepit
      - Polish: lepić
      - Slovak: lepiť
- Germanic: *laibijaną (“leave behind”)
  - ⇒ Germanic: *bilaibijaną
- Indo-Iranian: *laypáyati
  - Indo-Aryan: *laypáyati
    - Sanskrit: लेपयति (lepáyati, “to smear”)
*lip-o-s
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: λίπος (lípos, “fat”)
    - Greek: λίπος (lípos)
Unsorted formations:
- Balto-Slavic:
  - Baltic:
    - Latvian: lipt, laipns
- Germanic: *lībaną (with unexpected voiced Verner alternant)
  - ⇒ Germanic: *bilībaną
- Germanic: *libjaną (“to live, be alive”)
- Germanic: (possibly) *ainalif (“eleven”, literally “one left”), *twalif (“twelve”, literally “two left”) (see there for further descendants)
- Germanic: (possibly) *librō (“liver”) (see there for further descendants)
- Tocharian:
  - Tocharian B: lip (“remain”)

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