Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lono

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-Balto-Slavic *lákšna, from Proto-Indo-European *logʰsnóm, possibly a doublet of Proto-Slavic *ložesno (“womb”) (with thematic *-e-). According to some interpretations, akin to Ancient Greek λοξός (loxós), λέχρῐος (lékhrios, “tilted, slanted”).

Noun

*lonò n

1. lap

   Synonym: *skutъ

2. bosom, chest (ventral region of the torso)

   Synonyms: *pazuxa, *grǫdь

Inflection

Declension of *lonò (hard o-stem, accent paradigm b)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lonò	*lòně	*lonà
genitive	*lonà	*lonù	*lònъ
dative	*lonù	*lonòma	*lonòmъ
accusative	*lonò	*lòně	*lonà
instrumental	*lonъ̀mь, *lonòmь*	*lonòma	*lòny
locative	*loně̀	*lonù	*lòněxъ
vocative	*lonò	*lòně	*lonà

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

Derived terms

• *lonъko (diminutive)
• *lonьje, *lonьja (augmentative)

Related terms

• *leťi (“to lie (down)”)
• *ležàti (“to lie”)
• *lěgati (“to lie”)
• *lȏgъ (“lair, riverbed”)
• *lože (“bed”)
• *ložesno (“womb”)
• *ložiti (“to lay”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ло́на (lóna)
  • Russian: ло́но (lóno) (obsolete), лу́но (lúno) (dialectal), луно́ (lunó) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: ло́но (lóno)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: лоно (lono)

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⱁⱀⱁ (lono)

  • Bulgarian: ло́но (lóno)
  • Slovene: lono (obsolete)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lóno
    • Czech: lůno (literary)
  • Polish: łono
  • Slovak: lono
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: łono
    • Upper Sorbian: łono

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ло́но”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lono”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 32
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лоно”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 469