< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/álu
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-.
Noun
*álu n[1][2]
- beer
Inflection
Mobile accent, consonant stem *alu(t)-?
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latgalian: ols m, olus
- Latvian: alus m, alas
- Lithuanian: alùs m
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: allu n (written as Alu)
- Proto-Slavic: *ȍlъ m (see there for further descendants)
- →? Proto-Finnic: *olut (from oblique cases?)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ȏlъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370: “*alu”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “alus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53: “*alu”