Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/aráiˀsas

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

Probably borrowed from a substrate (with the onset *a- perhaps being a prefix in said substratum language), with no certain cognates in non-Balto-Slavic languages; that said, compare Albanian arrë (“walnut”), Ancient Greek ἄρυα (árua, “Heraclean filbert”). The connection to Proto-Slavic *rěšiti (“to untie, solve”),[1] the latter probably from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, bend”), is semantically unconvincing,[2] and Smoczynski's derivation from a Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)reyḱ- (“to tear, break”), which he connects to Ancient Greek ἐρείκω (ereíkō, “to break, bruise, crush, burst”),[3] is formally difficult.

Noun

*aráiˀsas m[4]

  1. nut

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: rīksts
    • Latvian: rieksts, riekste
    • Lithuanian: ri̇́ešutas, ri̇́ešutis, riešuti̇̀s, rúošutas
  • Proto-Slavic: *o(b)rěxъ (see there for further descendants)

Derived terms

  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: buccareisis (“beech-nut”)

References

  1. ^ “riešutas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “riešutas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382
  3. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ri̇́ešutas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 515-6
  4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*orěxъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
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