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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/mintis

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 *méntis.

Noun

*mintis f [1][2][3]

  1. thought
  2. mind

Inflection
Declension of *mintis (i-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *mintis *mintīˀ *mintejes? -ijes?
Accusative *mintin *mintīˀ *mintins
Genitive *minteiš *mintejuš? -ijuš? *mintejun? -ijun?
Locative *mintei? *mintejuš? -ijuš? *mintišu
Dative *mintejei? -ijei? *mintimō *mintimas
Instrumental *mintīˀ? *mintimō *mintimiš
Vocative *minti *mintīˀ *mintejes? -ijes?

Descendants
  • Lithuanian: mintìs
  • ⇒ Slavic: *pàmętь (< *pōˀ-mintis) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. 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
  2. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pàmętь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 390: “*mintis”
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015), “mintis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 319: “*mintis”
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