This base type is already attested in Church Slavonic. In today's Slavic languages, it is only found in Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian: slv. lonec 'cooking pot'; hrv., srb. lònac 'cooking pot' (cf. SNOJ, under lonec). The etymology is unclear. According to ESSJ (II: 149), this type is either related to the grc. ληνός 'wooden trough' or the lat. lanx and grc. λεκίς, λεκάνη 'bowl'.