Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wáps

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

*wáps

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.

Reconstruction notes

The Old Prussian form with /b/ is probably aligned from oblique cases.

Noun

*wáps f

wasp

Inflection

Perhaps a mobile accent with alignment to a fixed accent.

Declension of *wáps (athematic, mobile accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*wáps	*wábe	*wábes
Accusative	*wábin	*wábe	*wábins
Genitive	*wabés	—	*wabṓn
Locative	*wabí	—	*wabsú
Dative	*wábei	—	*wabmás
Instrumental	*wabḗˀ	—	*wabmī́ˀs
Vocative	*wab	*wábe	*wábes

Alternative reconstructions

*wápsāˀ[1]

Descendants

East Baltic:
- ⇒ Latvian: vapsene, vapsine, lapsene, lapseņe
- ⇒ Old Lithuanian: vãpsas
  - ⇒ Lithuanian: vapsvà
  - (dialectal): vãpsas, vapsà
West Baltic:
- ⇒ Old Prussian: wobse
⇒ Proto-Slavic: *osà (see there for further descendants)
→? Proto-Finnic: *vapsa- (see there for further descendants)

References

Derksen, Rick (2015), “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “*wóps(w)aʔ”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015), “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “*wóps(w)aʔ”