< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źeimā́ˀ
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From pre-Balto-Slavic *ǵʰeyméh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm.
Noun
*źeimā́ˀ f[1][2][3][4]
- winter
Inflection
| Declension of *źeimā́ˀ (ā-stem, mobile accent) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
| Nominative | *źeimā́ˀ | *źéimāiˀ | *źéimās | |
| Accusative | *źéimā(ˀ)n | *źéimāiˀ | *źéimā(ˀ)ns | |
| Genitive | *źeimā́(ˀ)s | *źeimā́u(ˀ) | *źeimṓn | |
| Locative | *źeimā́iˀ | *źeimā́u(ˀ) | *źeimā́(ˀ)su | |
| Dative | *źéimāi | *źeimā́(ˀ)mā(ˀ) | *źeimā́(ˀ)mas | |
| Instrumental | *źéimāˀn | *źeimā́(ˀ)māˀ | *źeimā́(ˀ)mīˀs | |
| Vocative | *źéima | *źéimāiˀ | *źéimās | |
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latgalian: zīma
- Latvian: zìema
- Lithuanian: žiemà
- Samogitian: žėima
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: semo (i.e. zemo)
- Proto-Slavic: *zimà (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*zimà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 544: “*źeimaʔ”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “ziema”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518: “*źeimaʔ”
- 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
- Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114