Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/masgás

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

With Proto-Indo-Iranian *mazgʰás and Proto-Germanic *mazgą (“marrow”)) from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰós. This term can be related to Proto-Indo-European *mezgʷ- (“to knit”) reflected in Proto-Balto-Slavic *mezgti (“to twist, to entangle, to knit, to weave etc.”) and Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ, *mēskwǭ (“mesh”) if it is correct that the Baltic words for “knot” are the same word as the Slavic word for “brain”.[1][2]

Noun

*masgás m[3][4]

marrow
brain

Inflection

Declension of *masgás (o-stem, mobile accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*masgás	*másgōˀ	*masgái⁽ˀ⁾
Accusative	*másgan	*másgōˀ	*másgō⁽ˀ⁾ns
Genitive	*másgā	*masgā́u⁽ˀ⁾	*masgṓn
Locative	*másgai	*masgā́u⁽ˀ⁾	*masgáišu
Dative	*másgōi	*masgámā⁽ˀ⁾	*masgámas
Instrumental	*másgōˀ	*masgámāˀ	*masgṓis
Vocative	*másge	*másgōˀ	*masgái⁽ˀ⁾

Alternative reconstructions

*másgas[5] (fixed accent)

Related terms

*masgen

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latvian: mezgls (“knot”), dial. mezgs, mazgs (“knotty”) (possibly)
- Lithuanian: mãzgas (“knot”) (possibly)
Proto-Slavic: *mȍzgъ or *mòzgъ (see there for further descendants)

References

Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413
Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308
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), “*mȏzgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328: “*mozg-o-”
Nikolajev, S. L. (2012), “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 130—131

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308

[3] 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

[4] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mȏzgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328: “*mozg-o-”

[5] Nikolajev, S. L. (2012), “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 130—131