Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lemešь

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Cognates include Latvian lemesis (“sharp plough”), Lithuanian lẽmežis (“wooden part of the plough”), lãmežis (“wooden part of the plough”)

Noun

*lemešь m [1]

Inflection

Declension of *lemešь (soft o-stem)

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*lemešь	*lemeša	*lemeši
Accusative	*lemešь	*lemeša	*lemešę̇
Genitive	*lemeša	*lemešu	*lemešь
Locative	*lemeši	*lemešu	*lemešixъ
Dative	*lemešu	*lemešema	*lemešemъ
Instrumental	lemešьmь, lemešemь^*	*lemešema	*lemeši
Vocative	*lemešu	*lemeša	*lemeši

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

Alternative forms

*lemežь

Synonyms

*lemexъ

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: ляме́ш (ljamjéš)
- Russian: ле́меш (lémeš)
- Ukrainian: лемі́ш (lemíš)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Cyrillic: лемешь (lemešĭ)
  
  Glagolitic: [Term?]
- Bulgarian: леме́ж (leméž)
- Macedonian: леме́ш (leméš)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: лѐмеш, лѐмеж
  
  Latin: lèmeš, lèmež
- Slovene: lémeš, lémež
West Slavic:
- Czech: lеmеš
- Polish: lemiesz
- Slovak: lеmеš
- Slovincian: lemješ

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lemešь; *lemežь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 271: “m. jo ‘ploughshare, plough’”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lemešь; *lemežь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 271: “m. jo ‘ploughshare, plough’”