Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wilkás

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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 *wĺ̥kʷos.

Noun

*wilkás m[1][2][3][4]

  1. wolf

Inflection

Declension of *wilkás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *wilkás *wílkōˀ *wilkái(ˀ)
Accusative *wílkan *wílkōˀ *wílkō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *wílkā *wilkā́u(ˀ) *wilkṓn
Locative *wílkai *wilkā́u(ˀ) *wilkáišu
Dative *wílkōi *wilkámā(ˀ) *wilkámas
Instrumental *wílkōˀ *wilkámāˀ *wilkṓis
Vocative *wílke *wílkōˀ *wilkái(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: vylks
    • Latvian: vìlks
    • Lithuanian: vil̃kas
    • Samogitian: vėlks
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *vь̑lkъ (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vь̑lkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 537:BSl. *wilkós
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vilkas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 503:BSL *wilkós
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Balto-Slavic Mobility as an Indo-European Problem, J. Jasanoff