Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/was(e)r

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 *wésr̥ ~ *uséns, *wósr̥ ~ *wésn̥s.

Noun

*was(e)r n or f^[1]^[2]

spring (season)

Inflection

Heteroclitic *was(er) ~ *wesn-. The word was originally neuter in PIE, but is feminine in all the descendants, so it's unclear what the Balto-Slavic state of things was.

Descendants

Latgalian: vosora
Latvian: vasara
Lithuanian: vãsara, (dialectal) vãsera
Proto-Slavic: *vesnà (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vesnà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 517: “*wes-n/(e)r-”
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vasara”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 492: “*wes-n/(e)r-”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vesnà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 517: “*wes-n/(e)r-”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “vasara”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 492: “*wes-n/(e)r-”

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