Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lygura

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 *(s)lūg- +‎ *-ura (“augmentative suffix”), from *(s)lewǵ- (“скользить”).

Noun

*lygura f

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Declension

Declension of *lygura (hard a-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lygura	*lygurě	*lygury
genitive	*lygury	*lyguru	*lygurъ
dative	*lygurě	*lygurama	*lyguramъ
accusative	*lygurǫ	*lygurě	*lygury
instrumental	*lygurojǫ, *lygurǫ**	*lygurama	*lygurami
locative	*lygurě	*lyguru	*lygurasъ, *lyguraxъ*
vocative	*lyguro	*lygurě	*lygury

^* -asъ is the expected Balto-Slavic form but is found only in some Old Czech documents; -axъ is found everywhere else and is formed by analogy with other locative plurals in -xъ.
^** The second form occurs in languages that contract early across /j/ (e.g. Czech), while the first form occurs in languages that do not (e.g. Russian).

Related terms

• *lyža (possibly)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: лѝгуре pl

    Latin script: lìgure pl

References

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lygura”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 24
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*lyža II”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 17 (*lъžь – *matješьnъjь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 60