Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/śímta

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

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm (“hundred”).

Noun

*śímta n[1][2][3]

hundred

Inflection

Mobile accent.

Declension of *śímta (o-stem)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*śimta	*śimtai	*śimtāˀ
Accusative	*śimta	*śimtai	*śimtāˀ
Genitive	*śimtā	*śimtāu⁽ˀ⁾	*śimtōn
Locative	*śimtai	*śimtāu⁽ˀ⁾	*śimtaišu
Dative	*śimtōi	*śimtamā⁽ˀ⁾	*śimtamas
Instrumental	*śimtōˀ	*śimtamāˀ	*śimtōis
Vocative	*śimta	*śimtai	*śimtāˀ

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latvian: sìmts, sìmt
- Lithuanian: šim̃tas
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: sīmtan
Proto-Slavic: *sъ̀to (with irregular *im > ъ; the expected outcome is *sęto) (see there for further descendants)

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sъto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 482: “BSl. *śímto”
Derksen, Rick (2015), “šimtas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 448: “BSl. *śímto”
Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European‎, Berlin: de Gruyter

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sъto”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 482: “BSl. *śímto”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015), “šimtas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 448: “BSl. *śímto”

[3] Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European‎, Berlin: de Gruyter