Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lipa

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 Proto-Balto-Slavic *léiˀpāˀ.[1]

Noun

*lìpa f[1][2]

  1. lime tree

Inflection

Declension of *lìpa (hard a-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *lìpa *lìpě *lìpy
genitive *lìpy *lìpu *lìpъ
dative *lìpě *lìpama *lìpamъ
accusative *lìpǫ *lìpě *lìpy
instrumental *lìpojǫ, *lìpǭ** *lìpama *lìpamī
locative *lìpě *lìpu *lìpasъ, *lìpaxъ*
vocative *lìpo *lìpě *lìpy

* -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

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: липа (lipa)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: липа (lipa)
      Glagolitic script: [Term?]
    • Bulgarian: липа́ (lipá)
    • Macedonian: липа (lipa)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ли̏па
      Latin script: lȉpa
    • Slovene: lípa (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “липа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lipa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 114

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lìpa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279:(a) ‘lime-tree’
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “lipa lipy”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander:a (SA 22, 155; PR 132; RPT 107, 110)