Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/nerti

This Proto-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-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nerˀtei.

Baltic cognates include Lithuanian nérti (to dive)

Verb edit

*nerti impf[1]

  1. to dive

Conjugation edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: нерети (nereti), нрѣти (nrěti)
  • South Slavic:

Further reading edit

  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*nerti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 13

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*nerti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 349