Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/źémē

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 pre-Balto-Slavic *ǵʰem-m̥, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.[1][2]

    Noun

    *źémē f[1][2]

    1. earth

    Inflection

    Fixed accent.

    This noun needs an inflection-table template.

    Alternative reconstructions

    • *źémijāˀ (Smoсzyński)

    Descendants

    • East Baltic:
      • Latgalian: zeme
      • Latvian: zeme
      • Lithuanian: žẽmė
      • Samogitian: žemė
    • West Baltic:
      • Old Prussian: semmē ( = zemē, with s due to German orthography)
      • Old Prussian: Semba
    • Proto-Slavic: *zemь
    • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *zemľa (with epenthetic */l/ from earlier *zemja < *ǵʰðʰem-) (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*zemļà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 542: “BSl. *źem-”
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Derksen, Rick (2015), “žemė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 516: “BSl. *źem-”
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