Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źwēˀrís

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Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

    From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer-is (wild animal), from *ǵʰwer- (wild).

    Noun

    *źwēˀrís m[1][2][3]

    1. wild animal, beast

    Inflection

    Declension of *źwēˀrís (i-stem, mobile accent)
    Singular Dual Plural
    Nominative *źwēˀrís *źwḗˀrīˀ *źwḗˀrejes
    Accusative *źwḗˀrin *źwḗˀrīˀ *źwḗˀrī(ˀ)ns
    Genitive *źwēˀréis *źwēˀrejáu *źwēˀrejṓn
    Locative *źwēˀrḗiˀ *źwēˀrejáu *źwēˀríšu
    Dative *źwḗˀrei *źwēˀrímā(ˀ) *źwēˀrímas
    Instrumental *źwḗˀrīˀ (early forms) *źwēˀrímāˀ *źwēˀrímīˀs
    Vocative *źwēˀréi *źwḗˀrīˀ *źwḗˀrejes

    Descendants

    • East Baltic:
      • Latgalian: zviers
      • Latvian: zvêrs
      • Lithuanian: žvėrìs
    • West Baltic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *zvě̑rь (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*zvě̑rь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 549:BSl. *źweʔrís
    2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “žvėris”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 524:BSl. *źweʔrís
    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