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]

tallow, suet

Inflection

Declension of *lȍjь (soft o-stem, accent paradigm c)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lȍjь	*lȍja	*lȍji
genitive	*lȍja	*lojù	*lòjь
dative	*lȍju	*lojemà	*lojèmъ
accusative	*lȍjь	*lȍja	*lȍję̇
instrumental	lȍjьmь, lȍjemь^*	*lojemà	*lojí
locative	*lȍji	*lojù	*lojĩxъ
vocative	*loju	*lȍja	*lȍji

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

Derived terms

*lajьno (“dung, feces”)
*lojьnъ (“tallowy”)

Related terms

*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:
  - Church Slavonic: лои (loi)
- 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:
- Old Czech: lój
  - Czech: lůj
    - Bohemian (Chod dialect): loj
- Polabian: lüj
- Old Polish: łój
  - Polish: łój
- Slovak: loj
- Slovincian: lój
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: łój

References

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

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lȏjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 283: “m. jo (c) ‘tallow, suet’”

[2] Olander, Thomas (2001) “lojь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎^[1], 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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