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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/práśīˀtei

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 *proḱ-éye-ti, from *preḱ-.

Verb

*práśīˀtei [1][2][3]

  1. to ask

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Descendants
  • Latgalian: praseit
  • Latvian: prasît
  • Lithuanian: prašýti
  • Slavic: *prosìti (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*prosìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420: “*proś-ei/i-”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015), “prašyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369: “*proś-ei/i-”
  3. Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 222: “*pro̍śiH-tēi”
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