Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/snáigas

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 *snóygʷʰos.[1][2]

    Noun

    *snáigas m[1][2][3][4]

    1. snow

    Inflection

    Declension of *snáigas (o-stem, fixed accent)
    singular dual plural
    nominative *snáigas *snáigōˀ *snáigai(ˀ)
    accusative *snáigan *snáigōˀ *snáigō(ˀ)ns
    genitive *snáigā *snáigāu(ˀ) *snáigōn
    locative *snáigai *snáigāu(ˀ) *snáigaišu
    dative *snáigōi *snáigamā(ˀ) *snáigamas
    instrumental *snáigōˀ *snáigamāˀ *snáigōis
    vocative *snáige *snáigōˀ *snáigai(ˀ)

    Descendants

    • East Baltic: *snẹ̄gas
      • Latgalian: snīgs
      • Latvian: snìegs
      • Lithuanian: sniẽgas
      • Samogitian: snėigs
    • West Baltic: *snaigas
    • Proto-Slavic: *sně̑gъ (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2008), “*sně̑gъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 457:*snoigos
    2. 2.0 2.1 Derksen, Rick (2015), “sniegas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416:*snoigos
    3. ^ Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, 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 162:*sna̍igas