Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/aráiˀsas
Appearance
Proto-Balto-Slavic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from a substrate (with the onset *a- perhaps being a prefix in said substratum language), with no certain cognates in non-Balto-Slavic languages; that said, compare Albanian arrë (“walnut”), Ancient Greek ἄρυα (árua, “Heraclean filbert”). The connection to Proto-Slavic *rěšiti (“to untie, solve”),[1] the latter probably from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, bend”), is semantically unconvincing,[2] and Smoczynski's derivation from a Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)reyḱ- (“to tear, break”), which he connects to Ancient Greek ἐρείκω (ereíkō, “to break, bruise, crush, burst”),[3] is formally difficult.
Noun
[edit]*aráiˀsas m[4]
Inflection
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Descendants
[edit]- East Baltic:
- Proto-Slavic: *o(b)rěxъ (see there for further descendants)
Derived terms
[edit]- West Baltic:
- Old Prussian: buccareisis (“beech-nut”)
References
[edit]- ^ “riešutas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “riešutas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ríešutas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 515-6
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*orěxъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 374