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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/bū́ˀtei

 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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt and *h₁ésti.

Verb edit

*bū́ˀtei[1][2][3]

  1. to be

Inflection edit

Suppletive, fixed accent,[4] athematic present *ésti ~ *sénti or *sánti.

Descendants edit

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: byut
    • Latvian: bût
    • Lithuanian: bū́ti
    • Samogitian: būtė
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *bỳti (see there for further descendants)

References edit

  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[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bỳti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 71: “*bʔu-”
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “būti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107: “*bʔu-”
  4. ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 218: “*The Proto-BSl. paradigm had fixed initial lexical accent, generalized from the 1–3 sg. (*h₁és-mi, *-si, *-ti) and the 3 pl. (*h₁s-énti).”
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