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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wáljāˀ

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 *wolh₁-yeh₁, from *welh₁- (“to choose, want”).

Noun

*wáljāˀ f [1][2]

  1. will

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Declension of *wáljāˀ (ā-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *wáljāˀ *wáljaiˀ *wáljāˀs
Accusative *wáljanˀ *wáljaiˀ *wáljāˀs
Genitive *wáljāˀs *wáljāˀuš? *wáljun
Locative *wáljāiˀ *wáljāˀuš? *wáljāˀsu
Dative *wáljāiˀ *wáljāˀmō *wáljāˀmas
Instrumental *wáljāˀm *wáljāˀmō *wáljāˀmiš
Vocative *wálja *wáljaiˀ *wáljāˀs

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: vaļa
    • Lithuanian: valià
  • Slavic: *vòľa (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vòļa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 525: “BSl. *wóleiʔ; *wolj-”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015), “valia”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 487: “BSl. *wóleiʔ; *wolj-”
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