Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/taurás

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 *táwros (“wild bull, aurochs”).

Noun

*taurás m^[1]^[2]

aurochs, wisent

Inflection

Declension of *taurás (o-stem, mobile accent)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*taurás	*táurōˀ	*taurái⁽ˀ⁾
accusative	*táuran	*táurōˀ	*táurō⁽ˀ⁾ns
genitive	*táurā	*taurā́u⁽ˀ⁾	*taurṓn
locative	*táurai	*taurā́u⁽ˀ⁾	*tauráišu
dative	*táurōi	*taurámā⁽ˀ⁾	*taurámas
instrumental	*táurōˀ	*taurámāˀ	*taurṓis
vocative	*táure	*táurōˀ	*taurái⁽ˀ⁾

Descendants

East Baltic:
- ⇒ Latgalian: tauryns (“butterfly”)
- Latvian: tàurs
  - ⇒ Latvian: tàuriņš, taurenis (“butterfly”)
- Lithuanian: taũras
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: tauris
Proto-Slavic: *tȗrъ (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Finnic: *tarvas (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tȗrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 500: “*taurós”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “tauras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460: “*taurós”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*tȗrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 500: “*taurós”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015), “tauras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460: “*taurós”

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