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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luna

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 earlier *luxna, from *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, from *lewk-.

Cognates include Latin lūna (< louxnā).

Noun

*lunà f [1][2][3]

  1. moon
    Synonym: *měsęcь

Declension
Declension of *lūnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *lūnà *lũně *lūnỳ
Accusative *lūnǫ̀ *lũně *lūnỳ
Genitive *lūnỳ *lūnù *lũnъ
Locative *lūně̀ *lūnù *lūnàsъ, *lūnàxъ*
Dative *lūně̀ *lūnàma *lūnàmъ
Instrumental *lūnòjǫ, *lũnǫ** *lūnàma *lūnàmī
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).

Descendants

Further reading

References
  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, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 20; PR 135)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “lúna”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar, Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, →ISBN: “*luna̋”
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