Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/swápnas

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 *swépnos (“sleep, slumber”).

Noun

*swápnas m[1][2][3][4]

dream
Synonym: *súpnas

Inflection

Declension of *swápnas (o-stem, fixed accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*swápnas	*swápnōˀ	*swápnai⁽ˀ⁾
Accusative	*swápnan	*swápnōˀ	*swápnō⁽ˀ⁾ns
Genitive	*swápnā	*swápnāu⁽ˀ⁾	*swápnōn
Locative	*swápnai	*swápnāu⁽ˀ⁾	*swápnaišu
Dative	*swápnōi	*swápnamā⁽ˀ⁾	*swápnamas
Instrumental	*swápnōˀ	*swápnamāˀ	*swápnōis
Vocative	*swápne	*swápnōˀ	*swápnai⁽ˀ⁾

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: sapyns, sapnis
- Latvian: sapnis
- Lithuanian: sãpnas
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: sapnas, sapnis

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), “*sъ̀nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 481: “*su(o)pnum”
Derksen, Rick (2015), “sapnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389: “*su(o)pno-”
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 33: “*su̯ópnos”

[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), “*sъ̀nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 481: “*su(o)pnum”

[3] Derksen, Rick (2015), “sapnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389: “*su(o)pno-”

[4] 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 33: “*su̯ópnos”