Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/tewas

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

Of unclear, possibly imitative, origin;[1] compare Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“dad”).

Noun

*tewas

father
uncle

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: tāvs
- Latvian: tēvs
- Lithuanian: tėvas
- Samogitian: tievs
West Baltic:
- Curonian: thewes
- Old Prussian: tāws
- Old Prussian: tiewe (vocative, dialectal, Nadruvia)[2]
- Sudovian: tews

References

Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 464
, Adelung, Johann Christoph (1809). Mithridates, oder, Allgemeine Sprachenkunde: mit den Vater unser als Sprachprobe in by nahe fünf hundert Sprachen und Mundarten (in German). Vossische Buchalndlung.

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 464

[2] , Adelung, Johann Christoph (1809). Mithridates, oder, Allgemeine Sprachenkunde: mit den Vater unser als Sprachprobe in by nahe fünf hundert Sprachen und Mundarten (in German). Vossische Buchalndlung.