Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/radás

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

Linked to the causative verb *rádīˀtei (to give birth);[1] see there for more.[2] Has also been compared to Proto-Germanic *razną (house, dwelling).

Noun

*radás m[2]

  1. birth, genus

Inflection

Declension of *radás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *radás *rádōˀ *radái(ˀ)
Accusative *rádan *rádōˀ *rádō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *rádā *radā́u(ˀ) *radṓn
Locative *rádai *radā́u(ˀ) *radáišu
Dative *rádōi *radámā(ˀ) *radámas
Instrumental *rádōˀ *radámāˀ *radṓis
Vocative *ráde *rádōˀ *radái(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: rods (relative)
    • Latvian: rads (birth, origin, kin, people, sex, sort)
  • Proto-Slavic: *rȍdъ (birth, origin, clan, family, yield) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rodìti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437:BSl. *rod-ei/i-
  2. 2.0 2.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*rȏdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437:BSl. *rodos