Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/dṓˀnāˀ

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 *dʰoHnéh₂ (“grain”), with accent retraction due to Hirt's law.^[1]

Noun

*dṓˀnāˀ f

grain
bread

Inflection

Declension of *dṓˀnāˀ (ā-stem, fixed accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*dṓˀnāˀ	*dṓˀnāiˀ	*dṓˀnās
Accusative	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾n	*dṓˀnāiˀ	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾ns
Genitive	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾s	*dṓˀnāu⁽ˀ⁾	*dṓˀnōn
Locative	*dṓˀnāiˀ	*dṓˀnāu⁽ˀ⁾	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾su
Dative	*dṓˀnāi	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾mā⁽ˀ⁾	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾mas
Instrumental	*dṓˀnāˀn	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾māˀ	*dṓˀnā⁽ˀ⁾mīˀs
Vocative	*dṓˀna	*dṓˀnāiˀ	*dṓˀnās

Descendants

East Baltic:
- Latvian: dõna
- Lithuanian: dúona

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “duona”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 146: “*dʰoH-neh₂ (*dʰeh₃-neh₁?) [...] The fixed stress on the root originates from Hirt's law.”

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) “duona”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 146: “*dʰoH-neh₂ (*dʰeh₃-neh₁?) [...] The fixed stress on the root originates from Hirt's law.”

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