Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źémē

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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 pre-Balto-Slavic *ǵʰem-m̥, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.

Noun[edit]

*źémē f[1][2]

  1. earth

Alternative reconstructions[edit]

Inflection[edit]

Fixed accent.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: zeme
    • Latvian: zeme
    • Lithuanian: žẽmė
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: semmē ( = zemē, with s due to German orthography)
    • Old Prussian: Semba
  • Proto-Slavic: *zemь
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *zemľa (with epenthetic */l/ from earlier *zemja < *ǵʰðʰem-) (see there for further descendants)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zemļà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 542: “BSl. *źem-”
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “žemė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 516: “BSl. *źem-”
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