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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][2][3]

  1. tallow, suet

Inflection

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Derived terms
  • *lojьnъ (“tallowy”)
  • *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:
    • 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:

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lȏjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 283: “m. jo (c) ‘tallow, suet’”
  2. Olander, Thomas (2001), “lojь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “c talg; tragt (PR 137)”
  3. Snoj, Marko (2016), “loj”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “Pslovan. *lȍjь”
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