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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wandō

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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

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of the PIE r/n-stem heteroclitic *wódr̥ with an irregular n-extension.

    Noun

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    *wandō m[1][2]

    1. water

    Inflection

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    The genitive singular is *undnes.

    Descendants

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    • East Baltic:
      • Lithuanian: vanduõ
      • Samogitian: ondou
      • Latvian: ūdens
      • Latgalian: iudiņs
    • West Baltic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *vodà (see there for further descendants)

    References

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    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vodà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 523:BSl. *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes
    2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vanduo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488:BSL *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes