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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/ledús

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

Would seem to be from Proto-Indo-European *ledʰ-u-s, from a root *ledʰ-, with only possible cognate being Irish ladg (“snow”).

Noun

*ledús m[1][2][3][4]

  1. water in frozen form; ice

Inflection
Declension of *ledús (u-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *ledús *lédūˀ *lédawes
Accusative *lédun *lédūˀ *lédū(ˀ)ns
Genitive *ledáus *ledawáu *ledawṓn
Locative *ledḗuˀ *ledawáu *ledúšu
Dative *ledáwei *ledúmā(ˀ) *ledúmas
Instrumental *lédūˀ (early forms) *ledúmāˀ *ledúmīˀs
Vocative *ledáu *lédūˀ *lédawes

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: lads
    • Latvian: ledus
    • Lithuanian: ledùs, lẽdas
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: ladis
  • Proto-Slavic: *lȇdъ (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*lȇdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 270: “BSl. *ledús”
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “ledas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 277: “BSL *ledús”
  3. Nikolajev, S. L. (2012) “Vostočnoslavjanskije refleksy akcentnoj paradigmy d i indojevropejskije sootvetstvija slavjanskim akcentnym tipam suščestvitelʹnyx mužskovo roda s o- i u-osnovami*”, in Karpato-balkanskij dialektnyj landšaft: Jazyk i kulʹtura‎ (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 95: “*lȇdъ ― *lȇd”
  4. Dybo, Vladimir A. (2014) “Балто-славянская акцентная система и итоги индоевропейской акцентологической реконструкции [Balto-Slavic accent system and the results of Indo-European accentological reconstruction]”, in Slavjanskij sbornik, Novi-Sad, kniga I‎ (in Russian), volume 8, Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 19: “*lȇdu̍s”
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