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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/deiwas

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 *deywós.[1]

Noun

*deiwas m [2]

  1. god

Inflection
Declension of *deiwas (o-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *deiwas *deiwōˀ *deiwai
Accusative *deiwun *deiwōˀ *deiwuns
Genitive *deiwā *deiwauš *deiwun
Locative *deiwai *deiwauš *deiwaišu
Dative *deiwōi *deiwamō *deiwamas
Instrumental *deiwōˀ *deiwamō *deiwamiš
Vocative *deiwe *deiwōˀ *deiwai

Descendants
  • Latgalian: dīvs, dīws
  • Latvian: dìevs
  • Lithuanian: diẽvas
  • Old Prussian: dēiwas, dēiws
  • Sudovian: Deivas
  • → Finnic: *taivas (“sky”) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015), “dievas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128: “*dei-u-o-”
  2. Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European‎, Berlin: de Gruyter
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