Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źeimā́ˀ

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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

Etymology

From pre-Balto-Slavic *ǵʰeyméh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéyōm.

Noun

*źeimā́ˀ f

  1. winter

Inflection

Declension of *źeimā́ˀ (ā-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *źeimā́ˀ *źéimāiˀ *źéimās
Accusative *źéimā(ˀ)n *źéimāiˀ *źéimā(ˀ)ns
Genitive *źeimā́(ˀ)s *źeimā́u(ˀ) *źeimṓn
Locative *źeimā́iˀ *źeimā́u(ˀ) *źeimā́(ˀ)su
Dative *źéimāi *źeimā́(ˀ)(ˀ) *źeimā́(ˀ)mas
Instrumental *źéimāˀn *źeimā́(ˀ)māˀ *źeimā́(ˀ)mīˀs
Vocative *źéima *źéimāiˀ *źéimās

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: zīma
    • Latvian: zìema
    • Lithuanian: žiemà
    • Samogitian: žėima
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: semo (i.e. zemo)
  • Proto-Slavic: *zimà (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zimà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 544:*źeimaʔ
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “ziema”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518:*źeimaʔ
  3. ^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
  4. ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114