Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/aráiˀsas

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

Probably borrowed from a substrate (with the onset *a- perhaps being a prefix in said substratum language), with no certain cognates in non-Balto-Slavic languages; that said, compare Albanian arrë (“walnut”), Ancient Greek ἄρυα (árua, “Heraclean filbert”). The connection to Proto-Slavic *rěšiti (“to untie, solve”), the latter probably from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, bend”), is semantically unconvincing, and Smoczynski's derivation from a Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)reyḱ- (“to tear, break”), which he connects to Ancient Greek ἐρείκω (ereíkō, “to break, bruise, crush, burst”), is formally difficult.

Noun

*aráiˀsas m

1. nut

Inflection

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Descendants

• East Baltic:
  • Latvian: rieksts, riekste
  • Lithuanian: ríešutas, ríešutis, riešutìs, rúošutas
• Proto-Slavic: *o(b)rěxъ (see there for further descendants)

Derived terms

• West Baltic:
  • Old Prussian: buccareisis (“beech-nut”)