< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źírˀna
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm, with accent retraction due to Hirt's law.
Noun
*źírˀna n[1][2][3]
- grain
Inflection
Fixed accent.
| Declension of *źírˀna (o-stem) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | ||
| Nominative | *źírˀna | *źírˀnai | *źírˀnāˀ | |
| Accusative | *źírˀna | *źírˀnai | *źírˀnāˀ | |
| Genitive | *źírˀnā | *źírˀnāu(ˀ) | *źírˀnōn | |
| Locative | *źírˀnai | *źírˀnāu(ˀ) | *źírˀnaišu | |
| Dative | *źírˀnōi | *źírˀnamā(ˀ) | *źírˀnamas | |
| Instrumental | *źírˀnōˀ | *źírˀnamāˀ | *źírˀnōis | |
| Vocative | *źírˀna | *źírˀnai | *źírˀnāˀ | |
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latvian: zir̃nis
- Lithuanian: žìrnis, žirnỹs
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: syrne
- Proto-Slavic: *zь̀rno (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Finnic: *herneh < (earlier *źŕ̥ˀna) (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*zь̀rno”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 553: “BSl. *źirʔn-”
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “žirnis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 520: “BSl. *źírʔno”
- 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