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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źénˀtas
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵemH-t-os (“son-in-law”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵemH- (“to form a relationship; to marry”), or else from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁-to-s (“relative”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth”).
Noun
*źénˀtas m[1][2][3]
- son-in-law, relative
Inflection
| Declension of *źénˀtas (o-stem, fixed accent) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
| Nominative | *źénˀtas | *źénˀtōˀ | *źénˀtai(ˀ) | |
| Accusative | *źénˀtan | *źénˀtōˀ | *źénˀtō(ˀ)ns | |
| Genitive | *źénˀtā | *źénˀtāu(ˀ) | *źénˀtōn | |
| Locative | *źénˀtai | *źénˀtāu(ˀ) | *źénˀtaišu | |
| Dative | *źénˀtōi | *źénˀtamā(ˀ) | *źénˀtamas | |
| Instrumental | *źénˀtōˀ | *źénˀtamāˀ | *źénˀtōis | |
| Vocative | *źénˀte | *źénˀtōˀ | *źénˀtai(ˀ) | |
Related terms
- *źíntis
Descendants
- Lithuanian: žéntas
- Proto-Slavic: *zętь
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*zę̀tь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 543: “BSl. *źénʔtis; *źénʔtos”
- 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
- Balto-Slavic Mobility as an Indo-European Problem, J. Jasanoff