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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gīˀwás

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 *gʷih₃wós.

Adjective

*gīˀwás[1][2][3]

  1. alive

Reconstruction notes

According to Dybo, the diphthongization of the vowel *ī in Prussian language occurred in a stressed syllable under the acute accent examining the form geijwas.[4] It is possible that the Prussian form indicates that Hirt's law was in effect. Kortlandt considers the combination -eij- an exception and a printer's error.[5]

Inflection

Mobile accent.

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: dzeivs
    • Latvian: dzīvs
    • Lithuanian: gývas
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: geijwas
    • Sudovian: gīwas
  • Proto-Slavic: *žȋvъ (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) “*žȋvъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 564:*gʔiwós
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015) “gyvas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 179:*gʔiwós
  4. Dybo, Vladimir A. (2011) “Sistema aktsentnykh paradigm v prusskom glagole [The system of accentual paradigms in the Prussian verb]”, in Tijmen Pronk, Rick Derksen, editors, Accent Matters. Papers on Balto-Slavic accentology (in Russian), volume 37, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, pages 87-88
  5. Kortlandt, Frederik H. H. (2001) “Diphthongization and monophthongization in Old Prussian”, in Res Balticae, volume 7, Leiden, page 58
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