Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lipiga

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 *lipa (“lime-tree”) +‎ *-iga.

Noun

*lipiga f

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Inflection

Declension of *lipiga (hard a-stem)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lipiga	*lipidzě	*lipigy
genitive	*lipigy	*lipigu	*lipigъ
dative	*lipidzě	*lipigama	*lipigamъ
accusative	*lipigǫ	*lipidzě	*lipigy
instrumental	lipigojǫ, lipigǫ^**	*lipigama	*lipigami
locative	*lipidzě	*lipigu	lipigasъ, lipigaxъ^*
vocative	*lipigo	*lipidzě	*lipigy

^* -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:
- Russian: Липига (Lipiga) (place name)

References

Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lipiga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 122