Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/kwṓ

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Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

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

According to Matasović, the depalatalization of palatovelars occurred before sonorant followed by a back vowel: Ḱ > K/_RVback. With alignment in inflection.

Noun

*kwṓ m

  1. dog

Inflection

Declension of *kwṓ (athematic, mobile accent)
singular dual plural
nominative *kwṓ *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
      (Nīgrande): so
    • Samogitian: šou
    • Old Lithuanian: ßů
  • West Baltic:

References

  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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