Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/snáigas

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 *snóygʷʰos.

Noun

*snáigas m[1][2][3][4]

snow

Inflection

Declension of *snáigas (o-stem, fixed accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*snáigas	*snáigōˀ	*snáigai⁽ˀ⁾
Accusative	*snáigan	*snáigōˀ	*snáigō⁽ˀ⁾ns
Genitive	*snáigā	*snáigāu⁽ˀ⁾	*snáigōn
Locative	*snáigai	*snáigāu⁽ˀ⁾	*snáigaišu
Dative	*snáigōi	*snáigamā⁽ˀ⁾	*snáigamas
Instrumental	*snáigōˀ	*snáigamāˀ	*snáigōis
Vocative	*snáige	*snáigōˀ	*snáigai⁽ˀ⁾

Descendants

East Baltic: *snẹ̄gas
- Latvian: snìegs
- Lithuanian: sniẽgas
West Baltic: *snaigas
- Old Prussian: snaygis
Proto-Slavic: *sně̑gъ (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
Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sně̑gъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457: “*snoigos”
Derksen, Rick (2015), “sniegas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416: “*snoigos”
Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 162: “*sna̍igas”

[1] 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

[2] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sně̑gъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457: “*snoigos”

[3] Derksen, Rick (2015), “sniegas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416: “*snoigos”

[4] Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 162: “*sna̍igas”