Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gléista

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 *gleh₁y-sto-m, from Proto-Indo-European *gleh₁y- (“to smear, putty; to stick, glue”). Cognate with Lithuanian glai̇̃stas (“layer of clay, plaster”).[1]

Noun

*gléista n[2]

  1. earthworm

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Declension of *gléista (o-stem)
singular dual plural
nominative *gléista *gléistai *gléistāˀ
accusative *gléista *gléistai *gléistāˀ
genitive *gléistā *gléistāu(ˀ) *gléistōn
locative *gléistai *gléistāu(ˀ) *gléistaišu
dative *gléistōi *gléistamā(ˀ) *gléistamas
instrumental *gléistōˀ *gléistamāˀ *gléistōis
vocative *gléista *gléistai *gléistāˀ

Descendants

  • Proto-Slavic: *glĩstъ (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*glístъ; *glīstà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164: “m. o; f. ā (b) ‘worm’”
  2. ^ Nikolajev, S. L. (2012), “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎[1] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 167
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