леќа

See also: лека

Macedonian

Etymology

Probably a South Slavic borrowing from an unidentified source. Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *lęťa.

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta), Bulgarian леща (lešta), Serbo-Croatian leća, Slovene leča, and Hungarian lencse.

Compare also Lithuanian lęšis, Old High German linsa, Latin lēns sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform.

If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is impossible because cultivation of lentils was widespread in the Mediterranean region since the Neolithic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛca]

• Audio:

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Noun

леќа • (leḱa) f

1. lentil
2. lens

Declension

Declension of леќа

	singular	plural
indefinite	леќа (leḱa)	леќи (leḱi)
definite unspecified	леќата (leḱata)	леќите (leḱite)
definite proximal	леќава (leḱava)	леќиве (leḱive)
definite distal	леќана (leḱana)	леќине (leḱine)
vocative	леќо (leḱo)	леќи (leḱi)