Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/masgás

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This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

With Proto-Indo-Iranian *mazgʰás and Proto-Germanic *mazgą (marrow)) from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰós. This term can be related to Proto-Indo-European *mezgʷ- (to knit) reflected in Proto-Balto-Slavic *mezgti (to twist, to entangle, to knit, to weave etc.) and Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ, *mēskwǭ (mesh) if it is correct that the Baltic words for “knot” are the same word as the Slavic word for “brain”.[1][2]

Noun

*masgás m[3][4]

  1. marrow
  2. brain

Inflection

Declension of *masgás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *masgás *másgōˀ *masgái(ˀ)
Accusative *másgan *másgōˀ *másgō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *másgā *masgā́u(ˀ) *masgṓn
Locative *másgai *masgā́u(ˀ) *masgáišu
Dative *másgōi *masgámā(ˀ) *masgámas
Instrumental *másgōˀ *masgámāˀ *masgṓis
Vocative *másge *másgōˀ *masgái(ˀ)

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: mozgys (knot) (possibly)
    • Latvian: mezgls (knot), dial. mezgs, mazgs (knotty) (possibly)
    • Lithuanian: mãzgas (knot) (possibly)
  • Proto-Slavic: *mȍzgъ or *mòzgъ (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308
  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
  4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*mȏzgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328:*mozg-o-
  5. ^ 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, pages 130—131