Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/platús
Proto-Balto-Slavic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us with unexpected o-grade.
Slavic descendants don't show agreement on the root-vowel length: North Slavic exhibit short grade, while South Slavic - long.
Adjective
edit*platús[1]
Inflection
editMobile accent.
Descendants
edit- East Baltic:
- Slavic: (forms names of types of flatfish)
References
edit- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “platus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
Further reading
edit- “platus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “плотва”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Duridanov, I. V., Racheva, M., Todorov, T. A., editors (1996), “платика”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 5 (падѐж – пỳска), Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 317