Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/métas

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

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Etymology

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Commonly proposed etymologies:

Derksen favours the first option, while Szemerényi - the second.

Noun

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*métas n[1] (Baltic)

  1. time, period
  2. (by extension) year
    Synonym: *gadás

Inflection

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S-stem, fixed accent.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Descendants

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  • East Baltic: (reanalyzed as masc. o-stem)
    • Latvian: męts (time)
    • Lithuanian: mẽtas sg (time), mẽtai pl (year)
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: mettan (interpreted as neut. o-stem), mette (year)
  • Slavic:

Further reading

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  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “metas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 314
  • metas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012

References

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  1. ^ Cvetko-Orešnik, Varja (1983) “Zu neueren Iranisch-Baltoslawischen isoglossen-Vorschlägen”, in Linguistica XXIII, page 210