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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/deiwás

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 *deywós.[1]

Noun

*deiwás m[2]

  1. god

Inflection

Declension of *deiwás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *deiwás *déiwōˀ *deiwái(ˀ)
Accusative *déiwan *déiwōˀ *déiwō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *déiwā *deiwā́u(ˀ) *deiwṓn
Locative *déiwai *deiwā́u(ˀ) *deiwáišu
Dative *déiwōi *deiwámā(ˀ) *deiwámas
Instrumental *déiwōˀ *deiwámāˀ *deiwṓis
Vocative *déiwe *déiwōˀ *deiwái(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic: *dẹ̄vas
    • Latgalian: dīvs, dīws
    • Latvian: dìevs
    • Lithuanian: diẽvas
  • West Baltic: *deiwas

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015), “dievas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128: “*dei-u-o-”
  2. 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
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