Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/bértei

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

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”):

  • Present stem inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéryeti (ye-present);
  • Preterite stem may reflect *bʰerh₁-, whence the acute in Latvian and dialectal Lithuanian.

Verb

*bértei

  1. to strew, to scatter

Inflection

  • Present: 1p. sg. *berjōˀ
  • Preterite: 1p. sg. *bērˀjam (ē-preterite)
  • *bir(ā)tei (“to pick”) (present *berōˀ)
    • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *bьrati

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “berti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88

Further reading

  • Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “berti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 40
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