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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źírˀna

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 *ǵr̥h₂nóm, with accent retraction due to Hirt's law.

Noun

*źírˀna n [1]

  1. grain

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Declension of *źírˀna (o-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *źírˀna? -un? *źírˀnai *źírˀnāˀ
Accusative *źírˀna? -un? *źírˀnai *źírˀnāˀ
Genitive *źírˀnā *źírˀnauš *źírˀnun
Locative *źírˀnai *źírˀnauš *źírˀnaišu
Dative *źírˀnōi *źírˀnamō *źírˀnamas
Instrumental *źírˀnōˀ *źírˀnamō *źírˀnamiš
Vocative *źírˀna? -un? *źírˀnai *źírˀnāˀ

Descendants
  • Latvian: zirnis
  • Lithuanian: žìrnis
  • Old Prussian: syrne
  • Slavic: *zь̀rno (see there for further descendants)
  • → Finnic: *herneh (< earlier *źŕ̥ˀna) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European‎, Berlin: de Gruyter
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