Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/éśwāˀ

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

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱweh₂,[1] an innovative feminine form of *h₁éḱwos.

Noun

*éśwāˀ f

mare

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Descendants

Old Lithuanian: ešva
- Lithuanian: ašvà
Old Latvian: ôssa[2]
⇒ Old Prussian: aswinan (“mare's milk”)
→? Proto-Finnic: *ehva (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Slavic: *esvo- (“horse”)
- ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *sverěpъ

References

Derksen, Rick (2015), “ašva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 65: “*h₁eḱueh₂-”
Blažek, Václav (2009), “Kam ta slova zmizela? O chybějících slovanských kontinuantech indoevropských etymonů”, in Ilona Janyšková, Helena Karlíková, editors, Studia etymologica Brunensia‎ (in Czech), volume 6, Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, →ISBN, pages 38-39

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015), “ašva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 65: “*h₁eḱueh₂-”

[Blazek-2] Blažek, Václav (2009), “Kam ta slova zmizela? O chybějících slovanských kontinuantech indoevropských etymonů”, in Ilona Janyšková, Helena Karlíková, editors, Studia etymologica Brunensia‎ (in Czech), volume 6, Prague: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, →ISBN, pages 38-39