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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/masgás

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

Derksen reviews two possibilities:[1]

  1. the Baltic Lithuanian mazgas (“knot”), dialectal mezgas, Latvian mezgls (“knot”), dialectal mezgs, mazgs (“knotty”) do not have cognates in Slavic, being cognate with Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Norse mǫskvi (“mesh”) with the latter from Proto-Germanic *mēskō, *maskō (“mesh”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to knit”).
  2. Alternatively the Baltic words for "knot" are cognate with Proto-Slavic *mȍzgъ (“brain, marrow”) (and additionally Old Norse mergr (“marrow”) < Proto-Germanic *mazgą (“marrow”)) ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.

Either way Proto-Slavic *mȍzgъ (“brain, marrow”) is cognate with Lithuanian smãgenys (“brain”), Latvian smadzenes (“brain”), smaganas (“(tooth) gums”) with the latter from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰen-.[2]

Noun

*masgás m [3][4][5]

  1. marrow
  2. brain

Inflection

Mobile accent.

Declension of *masgás (o-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *masgas *masgōˀ *masgai
Accusative *masgun *masgōˀ *masguns
Genitive *masgā *masgauš *masgun
Locative *masgai *masgauš *masgaišu
Dative *masgōi *masgamō *masgamas
Instrumental *masgōˀ *masgamō *masgamiš
Vocative *masge *masgōˀ *masgai

Descendants
  • Latvian: mezgls (“knot”), dialectal mezgs, mazgs (“knotty”) (possibly)
  • Lithuanian: mãzgas (“knot”) (possibly)
  • Slavic: *mȍzgъ (“brain, marrow”) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 308
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413
  3. 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
  4. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*mȏzgъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328: “*mozg-o-”
  5. Nikolajev, S. L. (2012), “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 130
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