Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěpidlo

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 *lěpiti (“to stick, to smear”) +‎ *-dlo.

Noun

*lěpìdlo n

1. clay
2. glue (orig. mash of resin, flour, or starch used as a glue)

Declension

Declension of *lěpidlo (hard o-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*lěpidlo	*lěpidlě	*lěpidla
genitive	*lěpidla	*lěpidlu	*lěpidlъ
dative	*lěpidlu	*lěpidloma	*lěpidlomъ
accusative	*lěpidlo	*lěpidlě	*lěpidla
instrumental	*lěpidlъmь, *lěpidlomь*	*lěpidloma	*lěpidly
locative	*lěpidlě	*lěpidlu	*lěpidlěxъ
vocative	*lěpidlo	*lěpidlě	*lěpidla

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Related terms

• *lěpъ (“beautiful, sticky”)
  • *lěpъka (“sticky object (plant, tape, etc.)”)
• *lěpivo (“glue”)
• *lěpostь, *lěpota (“stickiness, beauty”)

Descendants

• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: лепи́ло (lepílo)
  • Macedonian: ле́пило (lépilo)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: лѐпило

    Latin script: lèpilo

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lepidlo
    • Czech: lepidlo
  • Old Polish: lepidło
  • Slovak: lepidlo
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: lěpidło

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lěpidlo”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 216
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лепило”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 364