Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/álu

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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.

Proto-Balto-Slavic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-.

Noun[edit]

*álu n[1][2]

  1. beer

Inflection[edit]

Mobile accent, consonant stem *alu(t)-?

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: ols m, olus
    • Latvian: alus m, alas
    • Lithuanian: alùs m
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: allu n (written as Alu)
  • Proto-Slavic: *ȍlъ m (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Proto-Finnic: *olut (from oblique cases?)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ȏlъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 370:*alu
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “alus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53:*alu