Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/swápnas

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 *swépnos (“sleep, slumber”).

Noun

*swápnas m^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

dream
Synonym: *súpnas

Inflection

Declension of *swápnas (o-stem, fixed accent)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*swápnas	*swápnai	*swápnai
accusative	*swápnan	*swápnai	*swápnōns
genitive	*swápnā	*swápnāu⁽ˀ⁾	*swápnōn
locative	*swápnai	*swápnāu⁽ˀ⁾	*swápnaišu
dative	*swápnōi	*swápnamāˀ	*swápnamas
instrumental	*swápnōˀ	*swápnamāˀ	*swápnōis
vocative	*swápne	*swápnai	*swápnai

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

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: sapyns, sapnis
- Latvian: sapnis
- Lithuanian: sãpnas
- Samogitian: sapnos
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: sapnas, sapnis

References

^ Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎^[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sъ̀nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 481: “*su(o)pnum”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “sapnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389: “*su(o)pno-”
^ Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963), Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎^[2] (in Russian), Soviet Union; Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences, page 33: “*su̯ópnos”

[1] Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎^[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN

[2] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sъ̀nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 481: “*su(o)pnum”

[3] Derksen, Rick (2015), “sapnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389: “*su(o)pno-”

[4] Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963), Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎^[2] (in Russian), Soviet Union; Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences, page 33: “*su̯ópnos”

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