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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěnivъ

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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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From *lěnь (laziness) +‎ *-ivъ.

Adjective

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*lěnìvъ[1]

  1. lazy
  2. sluggish

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Slavic:
    • Belarusian: ляні́вы (ljanívy)
    • Russian: лени́вый (lenívyj)
    • Ukrainian: ліни́вий (linývyj)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: лѣнивъ (lěnivŭ, lazy)
      Glagolitic: ⰾⱑⱀⰻⰲⱏ (lěnivŭ)
    • Bulgarian: лени́в (lenív, lazy, sluggish)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Unspecified script: [Term?] (lazy)
      Latin script: ljèniv
    • Slovene: lenìv (lazy, sluggish)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: lenivý (lazy, sluggish)
    • Polish: leniwy (lazy, sluggish)
    • Slovak: lenivý (lazy, sluggish)
    • Sorbian:

Further reading

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лени́вый”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lěnìvъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 272:adj. ‘lazy, sluggish’