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Old Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *źmṓ, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ, from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”). Cognates include Old Prussian smoy, Latin homō and Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma).[1]
Noun
žmuõ m
- man
Descendants
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “žmuo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521