< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/mā́ˀtē
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.
Noun
*mā́ˀtē f[1][2][3]
- mother
Inflection
Fixed accent.
Declension of *mā́ˀtē (r-stem) | ||||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
Nominative | *mā́ˀtē | *mā́ˀtere | *mā́ˀteres | |
Accusative | *mā́ˀterin | *mā́ˀtere | *mā́ˀterins | |
Genitive | *mā́ˀteres | *mā́ˀterauš | *mā́ˀterōn | |
Locative | *mā́ˀtere | *mā́ˀterauš | *mā́ˀteršu | |
Dative | *mā́ˀterei | *mā́ˀtermāˀ | *mā́ˀtermas | |
Instrumental | *mā́ˀtermi | *mā́ˀtermāˀ | *mā́ˀtermīš | |
Vocative | *mā́ˀte | *mā́ˀtere | *mā́ˀteres |
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latgalian: muote
- Latvian: māte
- Lithuanian: mótė, motė̃ (Eastern Dzuk and West Aukštaitian dialects)[4]
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: mūti
- Proto-Slavic: *màti (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, page 1978: “*mā́tē”
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*màti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 303: “*máʔter-”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “motė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323: “*máʔter-”
- Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms] (in Russian), Soviet Union; Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences, page 76-77: “*mā́tē”