Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/náujas

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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

From Proto-Indo-European *néwyos.

Noun

*náujas m[1]

  1. Alternative form of *náwas

Inflection

Declension of *náujas (o-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *náujas *náujōˀ *náujai(ˀ)
Accusative *náujan *náujōˀ *náujō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *náujā *náujāu(ˀ) *náujōn
Locative *náujai *náujāu(ˀ) *náujaišu
Dative *náujōi *náujamā(ˀ) *náujamas
Instrumental *náujōˀ *náujamāˀ *náujōis
Vocative *náuje *náujōˀ *náujai(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: nàujš
    • Lithuanian: naũjas (the accent paradigm 2 follows from Daukša)
  • Old Prussian: nauns
  • Sudovian: nau

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “naujas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 330:*nowios; *nowos