леќа

See also: лека

Macedonian

Etymology

Probably a South Slavic borrowing from an unidentified source. Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *lęťa.

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta), Bulgarian леща (lešta), Serbo-Croatian leća, Slovene leča, and Hungarian lencse.

Compare also Lithuanian lęšis, Old High German linsa, Latin lēns sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform.

If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is impossible because cultivation of lentils was widespread in the Mediterranean region since the Neolithic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈlɛca]
Audio: (file)

Noun

леќа • (leḱa) f

lentil
lens

Declension

Declension of *леќа*
	singular	plural
indefinite	леќа (leḱa)	леќи (leḱi)
definite unspecified	леќата (leḱata)	леќите (leḱite)
definite proximal	леќава (leḱava)	леќиве (leḱive)
definite distal	леќана (leḱana)	леќине (leḱine)
vocative	леќо (leḱo)	леќи (leḱi)