Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/liňati

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*liňati

1. to moult
2. (by extension) to fade

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ліня́ць (linjácʹ); ліна́ць (linácʹ), ліне́ць (linjécʹ), ліні́цца (linícca) (dialectal)
  • Middle Russian: линѧ́ть (linjátʹ) (16ᵗʰ cent.)
    • Russian: линя́ть (linjátʹ); лина́ть (linátʹ) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: линя́ти (lynjáty)
    • ⇒ Ukrainian: ви́линяти (výlynjaty), полиня́ти (polynjáty)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: линея (lineja)
  • Macedonian: линее (linee)
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: лѝњати

    Latin: lìnjati

• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: líněti
    • Czech: línat
      • Bohemian (Chod dialect): línat
      • Moravian (Mistřice): líňat
  • Polish: linić
  • Slovak: liеnit᾽
  • Slovincian: l’əńwc
  • Sorbian:
    • Upper Sorbian: linać
    • Lower Sorbian: linaś

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lin'ati (sę)”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 109
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “линять”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), transl. and suppl. by Oleg Trubachyov, Moscow: Progress
• Martynaŭ, V. U., editor (1989), “ліня́ць”, in Этымалагічны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), volume 5 (ка́яць – ліпя́нка), Minsk: Navuka i technika