Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/swápnas

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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 *swépnos (sleep, slumber).

Noun

*swápnas m[1][2][3][4]

  1. dream
    Synonym: *súpnas

Inflection

Declension of *swápnas (o-stem, fixed accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *swápnas *swápnōˀ *swápnai(ˀ)
Accusative *swápnan *swápnōˀ *swápnō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *swápnā *swápnāu(ˀ) *swápnōn
Locative *swápnai *swápnāu(ˀ) *swápnaišu
Dative *swápnōi *swápnamā(ˀ) *swápnamas
Instrumental *swápnōˀ *swápnamāˀ *swápnōis
Vocative *swápne *swápnōˀ *swápnai(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: sapyns, sapnis
    • Latvian: sapnis
    • Lithuanian: sãpnas
  • West Baltic:

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*sъ̀nъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 481:*su(o)pnum
  3. ^ 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-
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    Illich-Svitych, Vladislav M. (1963) Именная акцентуация в балтийском и славянском: Судьба акцентуационных парадигм [Nominal Accentuation in Baltic and Slavic: The Fate of Accentuation Paradigms]‎ (in Russian), Soviet Union, Moscow: Publishing house of the USSR Academy of Sciences, page 33:*su̯ópnos