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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lučь

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

From Proto-Indo-European *lowkis, from *lewk- (“white; light; bright”).

Baltic cognates include Old Prussian luckis (“torch, log”).

Noun

*lũčь m [1][2]

  1. ray
  2. torch

Inflection
Declension of *lũčь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *lũčь *lūčà *lūčì
Accusative *lũčь *lūčà *lūčę̇̀
Genitive *lūčà *lūčù *lũčь
Locative *lūčì *lūčù *lũčixъ
Dative *lūčù *lūčèma *lũčemъ
Instrumental *lūčь̀mь, *lūčèmь* *lūčèma *lũči
Vocative *luču *lūčà *lūčì
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms
  • *lučajь
  • *lučevъ
  • *lučina
  • *lučьje
  • *lučьnъ
    • *lučьnica
    • *lučьnikъ
  • *luča (“ray, beam”)
  • *lučiti
  • *lučivo

Descendants
  • Church Slavonic: лучь (lučĭ) (Russian)
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: лучь (lučĭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: лучь (lučĭ), лоуча (luča)
      Glagolitic: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: луч (luč), лъч (lǎč)
    • Macedonian: лач (lač)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: лу̑ч
      Latin: lȗč
    • Slovene: lūč (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading
  • Trubačóv, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lučь”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ slavjanskix jazykov [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), volume 16, Moscow: Nauka, page 163
  • Černyx, P. Ja. (1999), “луч”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volume 1, 3rd reprint edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 496
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “луч”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lúčь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 290: “m. jo (b) ‘ray, torch’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “lučь luča”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b stråle (SA 126; RPT 97, 101f.)”
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