Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/kwṓ

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This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-Balto-Slavic[edit]

*kwṓ

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.[1]

According to Matasović, the depalatalization of palatovelars occurred before sonorant followed by a back vowel: Ḱ > K/_RVback. With alignment in inflection.

Noun[edit]

*kwṓ m

  1. dog

Inflection[edit]

Declension of *kwṓ (athematic, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *kwṓ *śúne *śúnes
Accusative *śúnin *śúne *śúnins
Genitive *śunés *śunṓn
Locative *śuní *śunsú
Dative *śúnei *śunmás
Instrumental *śunḗˀ *śunmī́ˀs
Vocative *śwán *śúne *śúnes

Descendants[edit]

  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: suns
      (Nīgrande): so
    • Samogitian: šou
    • Old Lithuanian: ßů
  • West Baltic:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “šuo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455:*ḱuõn