Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/luna

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 an earlier *lȗxna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *láukšnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂.

Noun

*lunà f[1][2][3]

  1. radiance, moonlight
  2. moon (celestial body)
    Synonym: *měsęcь

Declension

Declension of *lūnà (hard a-stem, accent paradigm b)
singular dual plural
nominative *lūnà *lũně *lūnỳ
genitive *lūnỳ *lūnù *lũnъ
dative *lūně̀ *lūnàma *lūnàmъ
accusative *lūnǫ̀ *lũně *lūnỳ
instrumental *lūnòjǫ, *lũnǫ** *lūnàma *lūnàmī
locative *lūně̀ *lūnù *lūnàsъ, *lūnàxъ*
vocative *luno *lũně *lūnỳ

* -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

  • East Slavic:
    • Russian: луна́ (luná)
    • Ukrainian: луна́ (luná, “echo”)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: лоуна (luna)
      Glagolitic script: ⰾⱆⱀⰰ (luna)
    • Macedonian: луна (luna)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin script: lúna (dated, rare)
      Cyrillic script: лу́на (dated, rare)
    • Slovene: lúna (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

Further reading

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1990), “*luna”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 16 (*lokadlo – *lъživьcь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 173

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lunà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 291: “f. ā ‘moon’”
  2. ^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “luna luny”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎[1], Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “b (SA 20; PR 135)”
  3. ^ Snoj, Marko (2016) “lúna”, in Slovenski etimološki slovar [Slovenian Etymology Dictionary] (in Slovene), 3rd edition, https://fran.si: “*luna̋”
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