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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěpъ

This Proto-Slavic 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-Slavic

Etymology 1

From *lěpiti + *-ъ, technically constructed as *lojь (fat, tallow) + *-pъ.

Noun

*lě̑pъ m [1]

  1. glue

Inflection

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Unspecified: [Term?]
      Latin: lȉjep
    • Slovene: lẹ̑p (tonal orthography) (archaic)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: lep
    • Polish: lep
    • Slovak: lep
    • Slovincian: lep
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: lip
      • Upper Sorbian: lěp

Etymology 2

Per Derksen, from the same origin as the noun *lěpъ (glue) via the semantic shift gluesmearabundant, rich, of good qualitybeautiful.

Adjective

*lě̑pъ [2][3]

  1. beautiful

Inflection

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ле́пы (ljépy) (archaic)
    • Russian: ле́пый (lépyj) (archaic)
    • Ukrainian: лі́пий (lípyj) (archaic)
  • South Slavic:
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lě̑pъ I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 273: “m. o (c) ‘glue’”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lě̑pъ II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274: “adj. o (c) ‘beautiful’”
  3. Olander, Thomas (2001), lěpъ lěpa lěpo”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:c smuk (SA 123f.; PR 138)”
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