Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/dérwa
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *derw-o-m, from *dóru (“wood”).
Noun
[edit]Inflection
[edit]Mobile accent.
Declension of *dérwa (o-stem) | ||||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
Nominative | *derwa | *derwai | *derwāˀ | |
Accusative | *derwa | *derwai | *derwāˀ | |
Genitive | *derwā | *derwāu(ˀ) | *derwōn | |
Locative | *derwai | *derwāu(ˀ) | *derwaišu | |
Dative | *derwōi | *derwamā(ˀ) | *derwamas | |
Instrumental | *derwōˀ | *derwamāˀ | *derwōis | |
Vocative | *derwa | *derwai | *derwāˀ |
Descendants
[edit]The ā-stems of Baltic may be remnants of the original plural, reanalysed as singulars. The acute found in these languages may be an (East) Baltic innovation; Slavic offers no evidence either way due to Meillet's law.
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dȇrvo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99: “*der(ʔ)wom”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “derva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 123: “*der(ʔ)wom”