Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/taurás

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 *táwros (“wild bull, aurochs”).

Noun

*taurás m[1][2]

  1. aurochs, wisent

Inflection

Declension of *taurás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *taurás *táurōˀ *taurái(ˀ)
Accusative *táuran *táurōˀ *táurō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *táurā *taurā́u(ˀ) *taurṓn
Locative *táurai *taurā́u(ˀ) *tauráišu
Dative *táurōi *taurámā(ˀ) *taurámas
Instrumental *táurōˀ *taurámāˀ *taurṓis
Vocative *táure *táurōˀ *taurái(ˀ)

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • → Latgalian: tauryns (“butterfly”)
    • Latvian: tàurs
      • → Latvian: tàuriņš, taurenis (“butterfly”)
    • Lithuanian: taũras
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *tȗrъ (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Finnic: *tarvas (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tȗrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 500: “*taurós”
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “tauras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460: “*taurós”
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