Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/áiˀźwāˀ

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 a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *Heyģ(ʰ)-, with no known cognates outside of Balto-Slavic.

Due to certain Baltic descendants referring specifically to ice rather than cracks, there is a possibility that a second etymologically unrelated term with a circumflex accent has been semantically confused with the primary term in Baltic (perhaps *h₁eyg- (“ice, frost”), though the process through which the *g- becomes palatalized would have to be explained).

Noun

*áiˀźwāˀ f

1. wound
2. crack

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• East Baltic:
  • Latvian: aĩza (“crack”), ìezt (“to bare one's teeth”), îze (“crack (in ice)”)
  • Lithuanian: áiža (“crack”), aižýti (“to shell”), iẽžti (“to shell”), eĩžti (“to shell”), ìžas (“hoarfrost”), yžė̃ (“pod, shell”), yžià (“ice-floe”), ìžti (“to burst”)
• West Baltic:
  • Old Prussian: eyswo (“wound”)
• Proto-Slavic: *jàzva (“wound”) (see there for further descendants)