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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lędvьje

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-Indo-European *lendʰ-. Cognates include Latin lumbus, Proto-Germanic *landį̄, Sanskrit रन्ध्र (rándhra).

Noun

*lędvьje n[1]

  1. loins

Inflection
Declension of *lędvьje (soft o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *lędvьje *lędvьji *lędvьja
genitive *lędvьja *lędvьju *lędvьjь
dative *lędvьju *lędvьjema *lędvьjemъ
accusative *lędvьje *lędvьji *lędvьja
instrumental *lędvьjьmь, *lędvьjemь* *lędvьjema *lędvьji
locative *lędvьji *lędvьju *lędvьjixъ
vocative *lędvьje *lędvьji *lędvьja
* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms
  • *lędvьja

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: ля́двея f (ljádveja, Nsg.) (archaic)
    • Ukrainian: лі́дви (lídvy)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: лѧдвиѩ f (lędviję, Npl.)
      Glagolitic: ⰾⱔⰴⰲⰻⱗ (lędviję)
    • ⇒ Bulgarian: ле́джа (lédža, “lineage, generation”) (dialectal)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: ле́ђа n (Npl.), ле̏два n (Npl.), ле̏два f (Nsg.)
      Latin script: léđa n (Npl.), lȅdva n (Npl.), lȅdva f (Nsg.)
    • Slovene: ledija f (Nsg.), ledeja f (Nsg.), ledevje n (Nsg.), ledovje n (Nsg.), ledje n (Nsg.), ledje f (Npl.), ledvije f (Npl.).
  • West Slavic:
    • Old Czech: ledvie
      • Czech: ledví n (Nsg.) (archaic), ladví n (Nsg.) (archaic)
    • Polish: lędźwie f (Npl.)
    • Slovak: ľadvie n (Nsg.) (archaic), ľadva f (Nsg.)
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: laźijo
      • Upper Sorbian: ledźba

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ля́двея”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lędvьje; *lędvьja”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 276: “n. io; f. iā ‘loins’”
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