Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/śḗr

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

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr (“heart”).

Reconstruction notes

In dialects, there are forms such as gen.sg. širdès, nom.pl. šìrdes, gen.pl. širdų̃, which point to an earlier root noun.

Noun

*śḗr n[1][2]

heart

Inflection

Declension of *śḗr (athematic, mobile accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*śḗr	*śírˀde	*śírˀdes
Accusative	*śírˀdin	*śírˀde	*śírˀdins
Genitive	*śirˀdés	—	*śirˀdṓn
Locative	*śirˀdí	—	*śirˀdsú
Dative	*śírˀdei	—	*śirˀdmás
Instrumental	*śirˀdḗˀ	—	*śirˀdmī́ˀs
Vocative	*śḗr	*śírˀde	*śírˀdes

Descendants

East Baltic:
- ⇒ Latgalian: sir̂ds
- ⇒ Latvian: sir̂ds
- ⇒ Old Lithuanian: širdès
  - ⇒ Lithuanian: širdìs
- ⇒ Samogitian: šėrdės
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: seyr, sijran
⇒ Proto-Slavic: *sь̑rdьce

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sь̏rdьce”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 485: “BSl. *śird-”
Derksen, Rick (2015), “širdis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 448: “BSl. *śirʔd-”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sь̏rdьce”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 485: “BSl. *śird-”

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