Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lęťa

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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

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Etymology

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Probably a wandering word from an unknown substrate (potentially non-Indo-European). Cognate with Lithuanian lęšis, Old High German linsa, Latin lēns. Vasmer excludes a direct borrowing from Germanic or Latin for phonetic reasons.

In some daughter languages, the lentil seeds are alternatively called with the generic term *sočivo, *sočevica (literally: “juicy commodity”), indicating that the crop was introduced among Slavic people in several stages. The first secure attestation of the plant in Northeastern Europe dates to XIII century.[1]

Noun

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*lę́ťa f[2]

  1. lentil

Declension

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Жуковский, Пётр (1978) Культурные растения и их сородичи, Колос
  2. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “leča”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si:Pslovan. *lę́t'a

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ляча”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lętja”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 64
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “леща”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 383