Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wáps

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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

*wáps

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.

Reconstruction notes

The Old Prussian form with /b/ is probably aligned from oblique cases.

Noun

*wáps f

  1. wasp

Inflection

Perhaps a mobile accent with alignment to a fixed accent.

Declension of *wáps (athematic, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *wáps *wábe *wábes
Accusative *wábin *wábe *wábins
Genitive *wabés *wabṓn
Locative *wabí *wabsú
Dative *wábei *wabmás
Instrumental *wabḗˀ *wabmī́ˀs
Vocative *wab *wábe *wábes

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488:*wóps(w)aʔ