Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lěkъ

Etymology 1
From, cognate with 🇨🇬. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The only certain meaning is “remaining”. There are varying hypotheses regarding the secondary meanings attested in South Slavic dialects:
 * Bezlaj: Derived from the titual etymology via semantic shift remaining → filtered → fine, delicate.
 * Skok: Dialectal South Slavic innovation, derived from Etymology 2. Possibly related to 🇨🇬.

It is unclear if modern 🇨🇬 (possibly also, ), 🇨🇬 descend from or are recent corruptions of.

Adjective

 * 1) remaining, residual
 * → fine, detailed
 * → delicate, subtle

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Etymology 2

 * Typically viewed as a loanword, either directly borrowed from  (< ) or secondarily coined from , itself derived from the aforementioned source. Further akin to 🇨🇬.
 * Mladenov, Skok: Of inherited origin, originally conveying “enchantment, spell”, possibly akin to 🇨🇬.
 * Bezlaj, Gołąb: Substantivized from Etymology 1, perhaps via residue → product, fine quantity (of brewing, preparation) → medicine.

Standard objection against the Germanic origin is that no Germanic language conveys the instrumental meaning “medicine”.

Noun

 * 1) remedy, medicine

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