Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lojь

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

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ley- (“to slip, to slide, to stick”) or *h₂leyH- (“to smear”) (according to Snoj, alternatively *leh₁y- (“to release, to dissolve”)), with potential relatives Proto-Germanic *slīmą (“slime”), Latin līmus (“mud”).

Noun

*lȍjь m

1. tallow, suet

Inflection

Declension of *lȍjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lȍjь	*lȍja	*lȍji
genitive	*lȍja	*lojù	*lòjь
dative	*lȍju	*lojemà	*lojèmъ
accusative	*lȍjь	*lȍja	*lȍję̇
instrumental	*lȍjьmь, *lȍjemь*	*lojemà	*lojí
locative	*lȍji	*lojù	*lojĩxъ
vocative	*loju	*lȍja	*lȍji

^* -ьmь in North Slavic, -emь in South Slavic.

Derived terms

• *lajьno (“dung, feces”)
• *lojьnъ (“tallowy”)

Related terms

• *liti, *lьjati (“to pour, to drift away”) (possibly)
• *sъlojь (“layer”)
• *slimakъ (“slimy creature, snail/slug”)

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: лой (loj)
  • Russian: лой (loj)
  • Ukrainian: лій (lij)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    • Church Slavonic: лои (loi)
  • Bulgarian: лой (loj)
  • Macedonian: лој (loj)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ло̑ј

    Latin script: lȏj

    • Chakavian (Orbanići): lᵘȏj
    • Chakavian (Vrgada): lȏj
  • Slovene: lọ̑j (tonal orthography)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lój
    • Czech: lůj
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): loj
  • Polabian: lüj
  • Old Polish: łój
    • Polish: łój
  • Slovak: loj
  • Slovincian: lój
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: łój