Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/néba

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

From Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos n (“cloud”).

Noun

*néba n[1][2][3][4]

cloud
sky

Reconstruction notes

According to Illich-Svitych, the barytone accent paradigm is represented in a number of monuments of Prussian Lithuania: In the Grammatica Lituanica of 1653, in the Gesangbuch of 1685, in the Gebetbüchlein of 1685, in the New Testament of 1701, in the German-Lithuanian Dictionary by Philipp Ruhig of 1747. In later editions, forms with a mobile accent paradigm are attested: In the New Testament of 1735, in the Bible of 1735/55. A mobile accent paradigm is generalized for dialects and in the literary Lithuanian language.

Inflection

S-stem, fixed accent.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative reconstructions

*nébas[5]

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: debess f
- Latvian: debess f
- Old Lithuanian: dẽbesis f
  - Lithuanian: debesìs f
Proto-Slavic: *nȅbo n (see there for further descendants)

References

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 61: “Лит. debesis, жен. р. ʽоблакоʼ.”
Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1979) Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms (in English), United States of America: The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, page 47: “Lith. debesis (fem.) ʽcloudʼ.”
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nȅbo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 347: “BSl. *nebo, nebes-”
Derksen, Rick (2015), “debesis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118: “BSL *nebo, nebes-”
Olander, Thomas (2015) Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: a comparative handbook (Brill’s studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics; 14), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 97: “PBS *nebas”

[1] 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 61: “Лит. debesis, жен. р. ʽоблакоʼ.”

[2] Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1979) Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms (in English), United States of America: The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, page 47: “Lith. debesis (fem.) ʽcloudʼ.”

[3] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*nȅbo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 347: “BSl. *nebo, nebes-”

[4] Derksen, Rick (2015), “debesis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118: “BSL *nebo, nebes-”

[5] Olander, Thomas (2015) Proto-Slavic inflectional morphology: a comparative handbook (Brill’s studies in Indo-European languages & linguistics; 14), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 97: “PBS *nebas”