Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/gírˀnūˀ
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥h₂-núH-s, from *gʷréh₂wō, with accent retraction due to Hirt's law.
Noun
*gírˀnūˀ f[1]
Inflection
Fixed accent.
Descendants
- East Baltic:
- Latgalian: dziernovys
- Latvian: dzir̃nus, dzir̃nas, dzir̃navas
- ⇒ Lithuanian: gìrna
- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: girnoywis (wrong transcription of *girnuvis)
- Proto-Slavic: *žь̀rny (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žьrny”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 566: “*girʔnuʔ”