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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/masgen
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰ-ḗn ~ *m̥sgʰ-nés, from *mosgʰos.
Noun
*masgen m[1]
- marrow, brain
Inflection
| Declension of *masgen (consonant stem) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
| Nominative | *masgen | *masgene | *masgenes | |
| Accusative | *masgenin | *masgene | *masgenins | |
| Genitive | *masgenes | *masgenauš? | *masgenōn | |
| Locative | *masgenī | *masgenauš? | *masgenišu | |
| Dative | *masgenei | *masgenmā | *masgen(i)mas | |
| Instrumental | *masgenmi? | *masgenmā | *masgenimīš? -imins? | |
| Vocative | *masgen | *masgene | *masgensu | |
Related terms
- *masgás
Descendants
- Latvian: smadzenes
- Lithuanian: smẽgenys
- Old Prussian: mulgeno
- Proto-Slavic: *moždženъ[1]
- Polabian: müzdin, müzdenü
- Serbo-Croatian: moždena
- Old Church Slavonic: мождени (moždeni)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “smagenys”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413