Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/súpnas

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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 *supnós (sleep, slumber).

Noun

*súpnas m

  1. sleep, dream
    Synonym: *swápnas

Inflection

Declension of *súpnas (o-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *súpnas *súpnōˀ *súpnai(ˀ)
Accusative *súpnan *súpnōˀ *súpnō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *súpnā *súpnāu(ˀ) *súpnōn
Locative *súpnai *súpnāu(ˀ) *súpnaišu
Dative *súpnōi *súpnamā(ˀ) *súpnamas
Instrumental *súpnōˀ *súpnamāˀ *súpnōis
Vocative *súpne *súpnōˀ *súpnai(ˀ)

Descendants

  • Proto-Slavic: *sъ̀nъ (< *sъpnъ) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “sapnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 389:*su(o)pno-
  2. ^ 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 1983