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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/śḗr

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

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”).[1][2]

Reconstruction notes

In dialects, there are forms such as gen.sg. širdès, nom.pl. šìrdes, gen.pl. širdų̃, which point to an earlier root noun.

Noun

*śḗr n[3]

  1. heart

Inflection
Declension of *śḗr (athematic, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *śḗr *śírˀde *śírˀdes
Accusative *śírˀdin *śírˀde *śírˀdins
Genitive *śirˀdés — *śirˀdṓn
Locative *śirˀdí — *śirˀdsú
Dative *śírˀdei — *śirˀdmás
Instrumental *śirˀdḗˀ — *śirˀdmī́ˀs
Vocative *śḗr *śírˀde *śírˀdes

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • ⇒ Latgalian: sir̂ds
    • ⇒ Latvian: sir̂ds
    • ⇒ Old Lithuanian: širdès
    • ⇒ Samogitian: šėrdės
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: seyr, sijran
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *sь̑rdьce

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sь̏rdьce”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 485: “BSl. *śird-”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015), “širdis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 448: “BSl. *śirʔd-”
  3. Pronk, Tijmen (2022), “Balto-Slavic”, in Thomas Olander, editors, The Indo-European Language Family: A Phylogenetic Perspective‎ (in English), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 285: “OPr. seyr < *ḱēr(d)”
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