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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/awinas
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From *awis + *-nas.
Noun
*awinas m[1][2]
- ram (male sheep)
Inflection
Declension of *awinas (o-stem, unknown accent) | ||||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
Nominative | *awinas | *awinōˀ | *awinai(ˀ) | |
Accusative | *awinan | *awinōˀ | *awinō(ˀ)ns | |
Genitive | *awinā | *awināu(ˀ) | *awinōn | |
Locative | *awinai | *awināu(ˀ) | *awinaišu | |
Dative | *awinōi | *awinamā(ˀ) | *awinamas | |
Instrumental | *awinōˀ | *awinamāˀ | *awinōis | |
Vocative | *awine | *awinōˀ | *awinai(ˀ) |
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latvian: àuns
- Lithuanian: ãvinas
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: awins
- Proto-Slavic: *ovьnъ (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Finnic: *oinas (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ovьnъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 384: “*owinos”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “avinas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 73: “*owinos”