Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/médu

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Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Noun

*médu n[1][2][3][4]

  1. honey

Inflection

Mobile accent.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: mads m
    • Latvian: medus m
    • Lithuanian: medùs m
    • Samogitian: medos m
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *mȅdъ m (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mȇdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306: “*medú-”
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “medus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309: “*medú-”
  3. ^ Kim, Ronald I. (2017–2018) “Chapter XVIII: Balto-Slavic”, in Klein, Jared S., Joseph, Brian D., Fritz, Matthias, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; 41.2), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, § The phonology of Balto-Slavic, page 1978: “PBS *medu”
  4. ^ Nikolajev, S. L. (2012) “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 95: “*mȇdu-”
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