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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/álu

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *h₂elut-.

Noun

*álu n [1][2]

  1. beer

Inflection

Mobile accent, consonant stem *alu(t)-?

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: ols m, olus
    • Latvian: alus m, alas
    • Lithuanian: alùs m
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: allu n (written as Alu)
  • Slavic: *ȍlъ m (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Finnic: *olut (from oblique cases?)

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) , “*ȏlъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 370: “*alu”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) , “alus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53: “*alu”
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