Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěsъ

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

Perhaps cognate with Proto-Germanic *lēswō (“pasture”), in which case, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁s-u-.

Noun

*lě̑sъ m

1. forest, woods

Declension

Declension of *lě̑sъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lě̑sъ	*lě̑sa	*lě̑si
genitive	*lě̑sa	*lěsù	*lě̃sъ
dative	*lě̑su	*lěsomà	*lěsòmъ
accusative	*lě̑sъ	*lě̑sa	*lě̑sy
instrumental	*lě̑sъmь, *lě̑somь*	*lěsomà	*lěsý
locative	*lě̑sě	*lěsù	*lěsě̃xъ
vocative	*lěse	*lě̑sa	*lě̑si

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лѣсъ (lěsŭ)
    • Old Ruthenian: лѣсъ (lěs)
      • Belarusian: лес (ljes)
      • Carpathian Rusyn: лїс (ljis)
      • Ukrainian: ліс (lis)
    • Russian: лес (les)
  • Old Novgorodian: *лѣсе (*lěse)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: лѣсъ (lěsŭ)

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⱑⱄⱏ (lěsŭ)

    • Bulgarian: лес (les)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ле̑с, лије̑с

    Latin script: lȇs, lijȇs

  • Slovene: lẹ̑s (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: les
    • Czech: les
  • Old Polish: las, les
    • Polish: las, les (Middle Polish)
    • Silesian: las, les (Southern Silesian)
  • Old Slovak: les
    • Pannonian Rusyn: лєс (ljes)
    • Slovak: les
  • Polabian: ľos
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: las
    • Slovincian: las
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: lěs
    • Upper Sorbian: lěs

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лес”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Moscow: Progress