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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lětь

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 *leh₁-ti-, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁-. Cognate with Lithuanian letas (“slow”), Latvian lets (“cheap”), Proto-Germanic *lētaną (“to let”).

Adverb

*lětь

  1. it is allowed

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: лѣть (lětĭ)
      • Belarusian: лець (ljecʹ)
      • Russian: леть (letʹ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: лѣть (lětĭ)
      Glagolitic: ⰾⱑⱅⱐ (lětĭ)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: lijet

References
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “letas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 281
  • Derksen, Rick (2008), “lětь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 275
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “леть”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. & suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lětь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), issue 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 18
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