Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/búrˀtei

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 *bʰerH- (“to pierce”).

Verb

*búrˀtei

  1. to bore, to drill
  2. (by extension) to conjure (in Baltic); to prattle (in Slavic)

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Derived terms

  • *búrˀtas
  • *búrˀtis
  • *burˀtwā́ˀ

Descendants

  • East Baltic:[1]
    • Latvian: bur̃t
    • Lithuanian: bùrti
  • Proto-Slavic: *bъrti (not attested)
    • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *bъrtiti, *bъrtviti

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “burti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107

Further reading

  • Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “burti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 67
  • Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*bъrtь/*bъrtъ”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 132
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