Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lizati

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 *léiźtei, from Proto-Indo-European *léyǵʰti (“to lick”).

Verb

*līzàti impf

1. to lick

Conjugation

Conjugation of *lizati, *liza, *ližetь (impf., -a/j-, s-aorist, accent paradigm b)

Verbal noun	Infinitive	Supine	L-participle
*lizanьje	*lizati	*lizatъ	*lizalъ

	Participles
Tense	Past	Present
Passive	*lizanъ	*ližemъ
Active	*lizavъ	*ližę

	Aorist			Present
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*lizaxъ	*liza	*liza	*ližǫ	*ližeši	*ližetь
Dual	*lizaxově	*lizasta	*lizaste	*liževě	*ližeta	*ližete
Plural	*lizaxomъ	*lizaste	*lizašę	*ližemъ	*ližete	*ližǫtь
	Imperfect			Imperative
Person	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Singular	*lizaaxъ	*lizaaše	*lizaaše	—	*liži	*liži
Dual	*lizaaxově	*lizaašeta	*lizaašete	*liživě	*ližita	—
Plural	*lizaaxomъ	*lizaašete	*lizaaxǫ	*ližimъ	*ližite	—

Derived terms

• *liznǫti
• *lazanьje (“licking”)
• *lazavъ
• *lizunъ
• (possibly) *lisati

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: лизати (lizati)
    • Belarusian: ліза́ць (lizácʹ)
    • Russian: лиза́ть (lizátʹ)
    • Ukrainian: лиза́ти (lyzáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лизати (lizati)

    Glagolitic: [Term?]

  • Bulgarian: ли́жа (líža)
  • Macedonian: лиже (liže)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ли́зати

    Latin script: lízati

  • Slovene: lízati, lizáti (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lízati
    • Czech: lízat
  • Polabian: laiže (3sg)
  • Old Polish: lizać
    • Polish: lizać
  • Slovak: lízať
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: lizać
    • Lower Sorbian: lizaś

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лизать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “лизать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 480
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lizati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 162
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “лизать”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa