Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lisa

From earlier *līpsā, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *leipśāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ulp- ~ *h₂wl(o)p- (“red fox”). Baltic cognates include Latvian lapsa (“fox”).

*lisa f

1. fox

• *lisatъ
• *lisavъ
• *lisica
• *lisinъ
• *lisiti
• *lisovъ
• *lisъ
• *lisъka

• East Slavic:
  • Belarusian: ліса́ (lisá)
  • Ukrainian: ли́са (lýsa)
  • Middle Russian: лиса (lisa) (17ᵗʰ cent.)
    • Russian: лиса́ (lisá)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic:

    Old Cyrillic: лиса (lisa)

    Glagolitic: ⰾⰺⱄⰰ (lisa)

  • Bulgarian: ли́са (lísa); ли́съ (lísǎ) (dialectal)
  • Macedonian: лиса (lisa)
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: lisa
  • Slovincian: lïsa

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1988), “*lisa I”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages] (in Russian), issue 15 (*lětina – *lokačь), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 137
• Derksen, Rick (2008), “*lisa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279: “m. ā ‘fox’”