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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/degtéi

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

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti.

Verb

*degtéi[1][2][3]

  1. to burn

Inflection

Mobile accent, simple thematic present *degetí.

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: degt
    • Latvian: degt
    • Lithuanian: dègti
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *žeťì (with sporadic d- > g-) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žegti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 554: “*deg-”
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015) “degti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 119: “*deg-”
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