Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lędvьje

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 *lendʰ-. Cognates include Latin lumbus, Proto-Germanic *landį̄, Sanskrit रन्ध्र (rándhra).

Noun

*lędvьje n

1. loins

Inflection

Declension of *lędvьje (soft o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lędvьje	*lędvьji	*lędvьja
genitive	*lędvьja	*lędvьju	*lędvьjь
dative	*lędvьju	*lędvьjema	*lędvьjemъ
accusative	*lędvьje	*lędvьji	*lędvьja
instrumental	*lędvьjьmь, *lędvьjemь*	*lędvьjema	*lędvьji
locative	*lędvьji	*lędvьju	*lędvьjixъ
vocative	*lędvьje	*lędvьji	*lędvьja

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

Alternative forms

• *lędvьja

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Russian: ля́двея f (ljádveja, Nsg.) (archaic)
  • Ukrainian: лі́дви (lídvy)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Cyrillic: лѧдвьѩ f (lędvĭję, Npl.)

    Glagolitic: ⰾⱔⰴⰲⱐⱗ (lędvĭję)

  • ⇒ Bulgarian: ле́джа (lédža, “lineage, generation”) (dialectal)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ле́ђа n (Npl.), ле̏два n (Npl.), ле̏два f (Nsg.)

    Latin script: léđa n (Npl.), lȅdva n (Npl.), lȅdva f (Nsg.)

  • Slovene: ledija f (Nsg.), ledeja f (Nsg.), ledevje n (Nsg.), ledovje n (Nsg.), ledje n (Nsg.), ledje f (Npl.), ledvije f (Npl.).
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: ledvie
    • Czech: ledví n (Nsg.) (archaic), ladví n (Nsg.) (archaic)
  • Polish: lędźwie f (Npl.)
  • Slovak: ľadvie n (Nsg.) (archaic), ľadva f (Nsg.)
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: ledźba
    • Lower Sorbian: laźwjo

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “ля́двея”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress