Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/was(e)r
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Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wésr̥ ~ *uséns, *wósr̥ ~ *wésn̥s.
Noun
- spring (season)
Inflection
Heteroclitic *was(er) ~ *wesn-. The word was originally neuter in PIE, but is feminine in all the descendants, so it's unclear what the Balto-Slavic state of things was.
Descendants
- Latgalian: vosora
- Latvian: vasara
- Lithuanian: vãsara, (dialectal) vãsera
- Proto-Slavic: *vesnà (see there for further descendants)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vesnà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 517: “*wes-n/(e)r-”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “vasara”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 492: “*wes-n/(e)r-”