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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/ū́ˀdrāˀ

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 *udréh₂, the feminine form of *udrós, from *wed- (“water”).

Noun

*ū́ˀdrāˀ f [1][2][3]

  1. otter

Inflection

Fixed accent.

Declension of *ū́ˀdrāˀ (ā-stem)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *ū́ˀdrāˀ *ū́ˀdraiˀ *ū́ˀdrāˀs
Accusative *ū́ˀdranˀ *ū́ˀdraiˀ *ū́ˀdrāˀs
Genitive *ū́ˀdrāˀs *ū́ˀdrāˀuš? *ū́ˀdrun
Locative *ū́ˀdrāiˀ *ū́ˀdrāˀuš? *ū́ˀdrāˀsu
Dative *ū́ˀdrāiˀ *ū́ˀdrāˀmō *ū́ˀdrāˀmas
Instrumental *ū́ˀdrāˀm *ū́ˀdrāˀmō *ū́ˀdrāˀmiš
Vocative *ū́ˀdra *ū́ˀdraiˀ *ū́ˀdrāˀs

Descendants
  • Lithuanian: ū́dra
  • Old Prussian: wudro
  • Slavic: *vỳdra (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*vỳdra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 534: “*úʔdraʔ”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015), “ūdra”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 477: “*úʔdraʔ”
  3. 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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