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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/is

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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

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Etymology

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    From Proto-Indo-European *ís and Proto-Indo-European *yós.[1]

    Determiner

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    *is

    1. this

    Pronoun

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    *is

    1. third person pronoun

    Inflection

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    This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

    Nominative Singular: *is, *īˀ, ja

    Descendants

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    • Latgalian: jis, jei, , juos
    • Lithuanian: jis, ji, jie, jos
    • Proto-Slavic: *jь (see there for further descendants) (nominatives from Proto-Indo-European *yós)

    References

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    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “is”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212:*jis