Jump to content

Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/brū́ˀs

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs.

Noun

[edit]

*brū́ˀs f[1][2][3]

  1. eyebrow

Descendants

[edit]
  • East Baltic:
    • Lithuanian: bruvìs (dialectal), brùvė
  • Proto-Slavic: *bry (see there for further descendants)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*bry”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 66:*bruʔs
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “bruvis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 103:*bruʔs