Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/deiwás

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 *deywós.[1]

Noun edit

*deiwás m[2]

  1. god

Inflection edit

Declension of *deiwás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *deiwás *déiwōˀ *deiwái(ˀ)
Accusative *déiwan *déiwōˀ *déiwō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *déiwā *deiwā́u(ˀ) *deiwṓn
Locative *déiwai *deiwā́u(ˀ) *deiwáišu
Dative *déiwōi *deiwámā(ˀ) *deiwámas
Instrumental *déiwōˀ *deiwámāˀ *deiwṓis
Vocative *déiwe *déiwōˀ *deiwái(ˀ)

Descendants edit

  • East Baltic: *dẹ̄vas
    • Latgalian: dīvs, dīws
    • Latvian: dìevs
    • Lithuanian: diẽvas
  • West Baltic: *deiwas
  • Proto-Slavic: *divъ

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “dievas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128:*dei-u-o-
  2. ^ 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