Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/duwō

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

**Proto-Balto-Slavic cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : *duwō

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Proto-Albanian *duwō.

Numeral

*duwō^[1]^[2]

two

Inflection

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Proto-Baltic: *d(u)wō, *d(u)wai
- East Baltic:
  - Latgalian: div, divi, diveji
  - Latvian: divi
  - Lithuanian: dù, dvi̇̀
- West Baltic:
  - Old Prussian: dwai
  - Sudovian: duo
Proto-Slavic: *dъva (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*d(ъ)va”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130: “*duoʔ; *duoiʔ”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “du”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 143: “*duoʔ”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*d(ъ)va”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130: “*duoʔ; *duoiʔ”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “du”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 143: “*duoʔ”

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