Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lětь
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Proto-Slavic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
*lětь
- it is allowed
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- 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 Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lětь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 18