Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/masgen

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰ-ḗn ~ *m̥sgʰ-nés, from *mosgʰos.

Noun

*masgen m^[1]

marrow, brain

Inflection

Declension of *masgen (consonant stem)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*masgen	*masgene	*masgenes
Accusative	*masgenin	*masgene	*masgenins
Genitive	*masgenes	*masgenauš?	*masgenōn
Locative	*masgenī	*masgenauš?	*masgenišu
Dative	*masgenei	*masgenmā	*masgen(i)mas
Instrumental	*masgenmi?	*masgenmā	*masgenimīš? -imins?
Vocative	*masgen	*masgene	*masgensu

Related terms

*masgás

Descendants

Latvian: smadzenes
Lithuanian: smẽgenys
Old Prussian: mulgeno
Proto-Slavic: *moždženъ^[1]
- Polabian: müzdin, müzdenü
- Serbo-Croatian: moždena
- Old Church Slavonic: мождени (moždeni)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “smagenys”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413

[EDBIL-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “smagenys”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413

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