Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/wáps

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

*wáps

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *wóps.

Reconstruction notes

The Old Prussian form with /b/ is probably aligned from oblique cases.

Noun

*wáps f

1. wasp

Inflection

Perhaps a mobile accent with alignment to a fixed accent.

Declension of *wáps (athematic, mobile accent)
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*wáps	*wábe	*wábes
Accusative	*wábin	*wábe	*wábins
Genitive	*wabés	—	*wabṓn
Locative	*wabí	—	*wabsú
Dative	*wábei	—	*wabmás
Instrumental	*wabḗˀ	—	*wabmī́ˀs
Vocative	*wab	*wábe	*wábes

Alternative reconstructions

• *wápsāˀ

Descendants

• East Baltic:
  • ⇒ Latgalian: lapsine
  • ⇒ Latvian: vapsene, vapsine, lapsene, lapseņe
  • ⇒ Old Lithuanian: vãpsas
    • ⇒ Lithuanian: vapsvà
    • (dialectal): vãpsas, vapsà
• West Baltic:
  • ⇒ Old Prussian: wobse
• ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *osà (see there for further descendants)
• →? Proto-Finnic: *vapsa- (see there for further descendants)