Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wandō

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 *wédōr, collective of the PIE r/n-stem heteroclitic *wódr̥ with an irregular n-extension.

Noun

*wandō m[1][2]

water

Inflection

The genitive singular is *undnes.

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Lithuanian: vanduõ
- Samogitian: ondou
- Latvian: ūdens
- Latgalian: iudiņs
West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: wundan, wunda, unds
Proto-Slavic: *vodà (see there for further descendants)

References

Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vodà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 523: “BSl. *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes”
Derksen, Rick (2015) “vanduo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “BSL *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes”

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[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vodà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 523: “BSl. *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes”

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “vanduo”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488: “BSL *wondōr, Gsg. *undnes”