Cognate Set 1146 – Meaning: ice
- IE-CoR reference form:
- *ledu-
- IE-CoR reference language:
- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Ideophonic:
- no
- Parallel derivation:
- no
Found in 2 clades by 25 lexemes.
- References
- Derksen, Rick: 277
S.v. Lith. lẽdas 'ice, hailstone' (Latv. lȩdus 'ice'). No known cognates outside of Balto-Slavic to support a PIE form *ledʰus. Proto-Balto-Slavic *ledús may be reconstructed to account for the attested forms (cf. Proto-Slavic *ledъ 'ice').
- Derksen, Rick: 270
S.v. Proto-Slavic *ledъ m. 'ice'. The PIE proto-form would be *ledʰ-u-s, but there are no known cognates outside of Balto-Slavic.
- Hock, Wolfgang and Fecht, Rainer and Feulner, Anna Helene and Hill, Eugen and Wodtko, Dagmar S.: 565
S.v. OLith. lẽdas 'Eis, Hagel' (BSl. Latv. lȩdus 'Eis, Eisscholle', OPr. ladis 'Eis', OCS ledъ 'Eis', etc.). No reliable comparanda outside of Balto-Slavic.
- Trubačev, O. N.: 14: 91-92
PS *ledŭ is related to Lithuanian lẽdas, ledùs, Latvian ļedus and Old Prussian ladis 'ice'. Further etymology is obscure, the existing hypotheses are inconvincing. [See p. 92 for a overview of the existing comparisons.]