Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/śwṓ

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

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.^[1]

Noun

*śwṓ m

dog

Inflection

Declension of *śwṓ (athematic, mobile accent)
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*śwṓ	*śúne	*śúnes
accusative	*śúnin	*śúne	*śúnins
genitive	*śunés	—	*śunṓn
locative	*śuní	—	*śunsú
dative	*śúnei	—	*śunmás
instrumental	*śunḗˀ	—	*śunmī́ˀs
vocative	*śwán	*śúne	*śúnes

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: suņs
- Latvian: suns, (dialectal) so
- Old Lithuanian: šuõ
  - Lithuanian: šuõ
- Samogitian: šou
West Baltic:
- ⇒ Old Prussian: sunis
- Sudovian: kuo

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “šuo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455: “*ḱuõn”

Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “suns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN, page 324
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[1] Derksen, Rick (2015), “šuo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 455: “*ḱuõn”

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