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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/brénˀstei

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

Per Derksen, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrend-. Related to Old Irish bruinne (“bosom”), possibly Latin frons (“bough”) (gen. frondis), Old Norse brant (“steep”).

Formal similarities with Proto-Slavic *broněti (“to saturate, to ripen”) (whence Russian броне́ть (bronétʹ), Ukrainian броні́ти (broníty)), ocassionally noted within the literature, are regarded as fortuitous. The later is most likely an essive deadjectival from *bro(d)nъ (“buckskin, light (of coloration)”).

Verb

*brénˀstei

  1. (in Baltic) to ripen, to mature

Conjugation

Fixed accent, with two interchangeable paradigms attested:

  • te-present, ā-preterite: Lithuanian brénsta (3p., pres.), bréndo (3p., pret.); Latvian briêstu (1p., pres.), briêdu (1p., pret.)
  • je-present, ē-preterite: Lithuanian bréndžia (3p., pres.), bréndė (3p., pret.); Latvian briêžu (1p., pres.), briêdu (1p., pret.)
  • *brínˀstei (“to swell, to ripen”)
  • *branˀdús (“thick, matured”)
    • *branˀdḗˀtei (essive)

Descendants
  • East Baltic[1][2]:
    • Latvian: briêst
    • Lithuanian: brę́sti
  • West Baltic:
    • ⇒ Old Prussian: pobrendints (“made difficult”) (nt-participle)
  • Slavic:

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “bręsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 99
  2. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “Proto-Balto-Slavic/brénˀstei”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Further reading
  • “bręsti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1974), “*abrędъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 1 (*a – *besědьlivъ), Moscow: Nauka, page 49
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