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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/snáigas

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 *snóygʷʰos.

Noun

*snáigas m[1][2][3][4]

  1. snow

Inflection
Declension of *snáigas (o-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *snáigas *snáigōˀ *snáigai(ˀ)
Accusative *snáigan *snáigōˀ *snáigō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *snáigā *snáigāu(ˀ) *snáigōn
Locative *snáigai *snáigāu(ˀ) *snáigaišu
Dative *snáigōi *snáigamā(ˀ) *snáigamas
Instrumental *snáigōˀ *snáigamāˀ *snáigōis
Vocative *snáige *snáigōˀ *snáigai(ˀ)

Descendants
  • East Baltic: *snẹ̄gas
    • Latvian: snìegs
    • Lithuanian: sniẽgas
  • West Baltic: *snaigas
    • Old Prussian: snaygis
  • Proto-Slavic: *sně̑gъ (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European‎, Berlin: de Gruyter
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sně̑gъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457: “*snoigos”
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015), “sniegas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416: “*snoigos”
  4. Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 162: “*sna̍igas”
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