Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/liga

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

Related to *slizь (“slime”).

Noun

*liga f[1]

  1. drool, saliva

Inflection

Declension of *liga (hard a-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *liga *lidzě *ligy
genitive *ligy *ligu *ligъ
dative *lidzě *ligama *ligamъ
accusative *ligǫ *lidzě *ligy
instrumental *ligojǫ, *ligǫ** *ligama *ligami
locative *lidzě *ligu *ligasъ, *ligaxъ*
vocative *ligo *lidzě *ligy

* -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).

Descendants

  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: ли́га (líga)
    • Macedonian: лига (liga)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: љи̏га
      Latin script: ljȉga

References

  1. ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*liga”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 87
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