< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/degtéi
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti.
Verb
*degtéi[1][2][3]
- to burn
Inflection
Mobile accent, simple thematic present *degetí.
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latvian: degt
- Lithuanian: dègti
- West Baltic:
- Sudovian: degt
- Proto-Slavic: *žeťì (with sporadic d- > g- and loss of -g- before -t-) (see there for further descendants)
References
- 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
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*žegti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554: “*deg-”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “degti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 119: “*deg-”