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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wáps

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
*wáps

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.

Reconstruction notes

The Old Prussian form with /b/ is probably aligned from oblique cases.

Noun

*wáps f

  1. wasp

Inflection

Perhaps a mobile accent with alignment to a fixed accent.

Declension of *wáps (athematic, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *wáps *wábe *wábes
Accusative *wábin *wábe *wábins
Genitive *wabés — *wabṓn
Locative *wabí — *wabsú
Dative *wábei — *wabmás
Instrumental *wabḗˀ — *wabmī́ˀs
Vocative *wab *wábe *wábes

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants
  • East Baltic:
    • ⇒ Latvian: vapsene, vapsine, lapsene, lapseņe
    • ⇒ Old Lithuanian: vãpsas
      • ⇒ Lithuanian: vapsvà
      • (dialectal): vãpsas, vapsà
  • West Baltic:
  • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *osà (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Proto-Finnic: *vapsa- (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “vapsva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “*wóps(w)aʔ”
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