Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lisa

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 earlier *līpsā, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *leipśāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ulp- ~ *h₂wl(o)p- (“red fox”). For details see Latvian lapsa (“fox”).

Noun

*lisa f

1. fox

Derived terms

• *lisatъ
• *lisavъ
• *lisę
• *lisica
• *lisinъ
• *lisiti
• *lisovъ
• *lisъ
• *lisъka

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ліса́ (lisá)
  • Ukrainian: ли́са (lýsa)
  • Middle Russian: лиса (lisa) (17ᵗʰ cent.)
    • Russian: лиса́ (lisá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic script: лиса (lisa)

    Glagolitic script: ⰾⰺⱄⰰ (lisa)

  • Bulgarian: ли́са (lísa); ли́съ (lísǎ) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: лиса (lisa)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lisa
  • Slovincian: lysa

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lisa I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 137
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lisa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279: “m. ā ‘fox’”