Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/bū́ˀtei

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

    From Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt[1][2] and *h₁ésti.

    Verb

    *bū́ˀtei[3][1][2]

    1. to be

    Inflection

    Suppletive, fixed accent,[4] athematic present *ésmi, *ési, *ésti ~ *sénti or *sánti.

    Descendants

    • Proto-Baltic: *būtei
      • East Baltic:
        • Latgalian: byut
        • Latvian: bût
        • Lithuanian: bū́ti
        • Samogitian: būtė
      • West Baltic:
        • Old Prussian: būton
    • Proto-Slavic: *bỳti (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bỳti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 71: “*bʔu-”
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “būti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107: “*bʔu-”
    3. ^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
    4. ^ Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 218: “*The Proto-BSl. paradigm had fixed initial lexical accent, generalized from the 1–3 sg. (*h₁és-mi, *-si, *-ti) and the 3 pl. (*h₁s-énti).”
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