Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/dēwēˀtei

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

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-, likely verbalized from the perfect w-participle^[1] (Van Wijk, Stang). Per Derksen, in particular from pre-Balto-Slavic *dʰh₁ēw-^[2].

Reconstruction notes edit

Modern descendants point towards columnar circumflex root-stress (except for the infinitive in Lithuanian with ictus on the thematic vowel). Kortlandt considers the circumflex as original for the overall derivational pattern.^[3]

Verb edit

*dēwēˀtei

to have set, to wear (stative)

Conjugation edit

Fixed accent.

In modern descendants with i-present and ē-pretarite.

Related terms edit

*dḗˀtei (“to do, to place”)

Descendants edit

East Baltic:^[2]
- Latvian: dēvêt
- Lithuanian: dėvė́ti
⇒ Proto-Slavic: *děvati (obsolete)
- ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *vъděvati, *naděvati, *oděvati, *poděvati

References edit

^ Bammesberger, Alfred (1974) “The Formation of the East Baltic Stative Verbs *stāw-ē- and *dēw-ē-”, in Language, volume 50, Linguistic Society of America, pages 687-695
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “dėvėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 125
^ Kortlandt, Frederik (1989) “Lithuanian statýti and related formations”, in Baltistica, volume 25, pages 104-112