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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/degtéi

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 *dʰégʷʰeti.

Verb

*degtéi [1][2][3]

  1. to burn

Inflection

Mobile accent, simple thematic present *degetí.

Descendants

  • Latvian: degt
  • Lithuanian: dègti
  • Slavic: *žeťì (with sporadic d- > g-) (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
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*žegti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 554: “*deg-”
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015), “degti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 119: “*deg-”
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