Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/śwṓ

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

*śwṓ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.[1]

According to Matasović, the depalatalization of palatovelars occurred before sonorant followed by a back vowel: Ḱ > K/_RV^back. With alignment in inflection.

Noun

*śwṓ m

dog
Synonym: *kwṓ

Inflection

Declension of *śwṓ (athematic, mobile accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*śwṓ	*śúne	*śúnes
Accusative	*śúnin	*śúne	*śúnins
Genitive	*śunés	—	*śunṓn
Locative	*śuní	—	*śunsú
Dative	*śúnei	—	*śunmás
Instrumental	*śunḗˀ	—	*śunmī́ˀs
Vocative	*śwán	*śúne	*śúnes

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latvian: suns
- Old Lithuanian: ßů
  - Lithuanian: šuõ
    (Tverečius): šuõ
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: sunnis

References

Derksen, Rick (2015), “šuo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455: “*ḱuõn”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015), “šuo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455: “*ḱuõn”