Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/licemĕrъ

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 *lice +‎ *-měrъ.

Verb

*liceměrъ m

1. hypocrite

Inflection

Declension of *licemĕrъ (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*licemĕrъ	*licemĕra	*licemĕri
genitive	*licemĕra	*licemĕru	*licemĕrъ
dative	*licemĕru	*licemĕroma	*licemĕromъ
accusative	*licemĕrъ	*licemĕra	*licemĕry
instrumental	*licemĕrъmь, *licemĕromь*	*licemĕroma	*licemĕry
locative	*licemĕrě	*licemĕru	*licemĕrěxъ
vocative	*licemĕre	*licemĕra	*licemĕri

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лицемѣръ (liceměrŭ)
    • Russian: лицеме́р (licemér)
    • Ukrainian: лицемі́р (lycemír)
• South Slavic
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: лицемѣръ (liceměrŭ)

  • Bulgarian: лицемѐр (licemèr)
  • Macedonian: ли́цемер (lícemer)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ли̏цемер, ли̏цемјер

    Latin script: lȉcemer, lȉcemjer

  • Slovene: licemér (tonal orthography)

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*licemĕrъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 79
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лицеме́р”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress