Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/damús

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 *dom-u-s, from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (home; house).[1][2]

Noun

*damús m[1][2][3]

  1. house

Inflection

Declension of *damús (u-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *damús *dámūˀ *dámawes
Accusative *dámun *dámūˀ *dámū(ˀ)ns
Genitive *damáus *damawáu *damawṓn
Locative *damḗuˀ *damawáu *damúšu
Dative *damáwei *damúmā(ˀ) *damúmas
Instrumental *dámūˀ (early forms) *damúmāˀ *damúmīˀs
Vocative *damáu *dámūˀ *dámawes

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: noms
    • Latvian: nams
    • Lithuanian: nãmas, api̇̀dėmė
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: dimsti
  • Proto-Slavic: *dȍmъ (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*dȏmъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 113:BSl. *domus
  2. 2.0 2.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “namas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328
  3. ^ 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[1] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 93:*dȏmъ*dȏm