Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lęťa

Etymology
Probably a wandering word from an unknown (potentially non-Indo-European). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Vasmer excludes a direct borrowing from Germanic or Latin for phonetic reasons.

In some daughter languages, the lentil seeds are alternatively called with the generic term, (literally: “juicy commodity”), indicating that the crop was introduced among Slavic people in several stages. The first secure attestation of the plant in Northeastern Europe dates to XIII century.

Noun

 * 1) lentil

Descendants

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