Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ložesno

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-Indo-European *legʰ-. For semantic shift to "womb", compare Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos, “bedstead, marriage”), λόχιος (lókhios, “pertaining to child-birth”).

Noun

*ložesno n

1. womb

Inflection

Declension of *ložesno (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ložesno	*ložesně	*ložesna
genitive	*ložesna	*ložesnu	*ložesnъ
dative	*ložesnu	*ložesnoma	*ložesnomъ
accusative	*ložesno	*ložesně	*ložesna
instrumental	*ložesnъmь, *ložesnomь*	*ložesnoma	*ložesny
locative	*ložesně	*ložesnu	*ložesněxъ
vocative	*ložesno	*ložesně	*ložesna

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

Related terms

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

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: ложесно (ložesno, “womb”)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: ложесно (ložesno, “womb”) (Codex Suprasliensis)

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⱁⰶⰵⱄⱀⱁ (ložesno)

  • Slovene: ložesna (“womb”)
• West Slavic:

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ložesno”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 287