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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wandō
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of the PIE r/n-stem heteroclitic *wódr̥ with an irregular n-extension.
Noun
*wandō m[1][2]
- water
Inflection
The genitive singular is *undnes.
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latgalian: iudiņs
- Latvian: ûdens
- Lithuanian: vanduõ
- Samogitian: ondou
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: wundan, wunda, undan
- Proto-Slavic: *vodà (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vodà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 523: “BSl. *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “vanduo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “BSL *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes”