Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/galsás

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *golH-s-o-s, from *gelH- (“to call”). Compare Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”) (from an unattested noun *kalza-), Proto-Brythonic *gėlwɨd (“to call”), Latin gallus (“cock”).

Noun

*galsás m

1. voice

Inflection

Declension of *galsás (o-stem, mobile accent)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*galsás	*galsai	*galsái
accusative	*galsan	*galsai	*galsōns
genitive	*galsā	*galsāu⁽ˀ⁾	*galsṓn
locative	*galsái	*galsāu⁽ˀ⁾	*galsaišú
dative	*galsōi	*galsamā́ˀ	*galsamás
instrumental	*galsōˀ	*galsamā́ˀ	*galsṓis
vocative	*galse	*galsai	*galsái

In mobile paradigms, forms without an accent marker are enclinomena, which do not have inherent lexical accent.

Descendants

• East Baltic:
  • Lithuanian: gal̃sas
• Proto-Slavic: *gȏlsъ (see there for further descendants)