< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/dḗˀtei
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do”).
Verb
*dḗˀtei[1][2]
- to put, to place
- to do
Inflection
Reduplicated present *dedēˀti.
Descendants
- Latvian: dêt
- Lithuanian: dė́ti
- Proto-Slavic: *děti (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*děti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 104: “*deʔ-”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “dėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 125: “*deʔ-”