Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/degtéi
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti.
Verb
- to burn
Inflection
Mobile accent, simple thematic present *degetí.
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- West Baltic:
- ⇒ Sudovian: degt
- Proto-Slavic: *žeťì (with sporadic d- > g-) (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) “*žegti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554: “*deg-”
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “degti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 119: “*deg-”