Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/strujas

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *stru-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *struyós

Proto-Balto-Slavic *strujas

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *struyós, from *stru- (“gray-haired, old”).

Noun

*strujas m

Descendants

• East Baltic:
  • Old Lithuanian: strùjus
    • Lithuanian: strùjus (dialectal)
• Proto-Slavic: *strъjь (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “strujus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 432: “*strujos”
• Derksen, Rick (2008) “*strъjь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470: “*strujos”