Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/bū́ˀtei
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt and *h₁ésti.
Verb
- to be
Inflection
Suppletive, fixed accent, athematic present *ésti ~ *sénti or *sánti.
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: būton
- Proto-Slavic: *bỳti (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bỳti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 71: “*bʔu-”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “būti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107: “*bʔu-”
- ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 218: “*The Proto-BSl. paradigm had fixed initial lexical accent, generalized from the 1–3 sg. (*h₁és-mi, *-si, *-ti) and the 3 pl. (*h₁s-énti).”