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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/rugís

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

In view of Proto-Germanic *rugiz (and dubious additional Indo-European cognates), traditionally considered inherited from a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word for “rye”, one possible reconstruction of which is *Hrugʰís.

However, there are formal problems with a PIE reconstruction, or indeed even of Proto-Balto-Slavic. Reviewing the Balto-Slavic material, Szemerényi concludes that the word was borrowed into the different subbranches separately.[1]

Noun

*rugís m

  1. rye

Inflection
Declension of *rugís (i-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *rugís *rúgīˀ *rúgejes
Accusative *rúgin *rúgīˀ *rúgī(ˀ)ns
Genitive *rugéis *rugejáu *rugejṓn
Locative *rugḗiˀ *rugejáu *rugíšu
Dative *rúgei *rugímā(ˀ) *rugímas
Instrumental *rúgīˀ (early forms) *rugímāˀ *rugímīˀs
Vocative *rugéi *rúgīˀ *rúgejes

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: rudzis
    • Lithuanian: rugỹs
  • West Baltic:
    • Old Prussian: ruggis (“ear of corn”) (written as Rugis)
  • Proto-Slavic: *rъ̏žь f (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Szemerényi, Oswald (1967) “Славянская этимология на индоевропейском фоне”, in В. А. Меркулова, transl., Вопросы языкознания (in Russian), number 4, page 23
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