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Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/warnás

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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 an adjective *warnás or *warwás (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), the same source as *wárˀnāˀ (“crow”). See also Hittite 𒉿𒊏 (wa-ra).[1]

Noun

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*warnás m[2][3][4]

  1. raven

Inflection

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Declension of *warnás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *warnás *wárnōˀ *warnái(ˀ)
Accusative *wárnan *wárnōˀ *wárnō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *wárnā *warnā́u(ˀ) *warnṓn
Locative *wárnai *warnā́u(ˀ) *warnáišu
Dative *wárnōi *warnámā(ˀ) *warnámas
Instrumental *wárnōˀ *warnámāˀ *warnṓis
Vocative *wárne *wárnōˀ *warnái(ˀ)

Descendants

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  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: vãrns
    • Lithuanian: var̃nas
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *vȏrnъ (see there for further descendants)

References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1166”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1166
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vȏrnъ I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 528: “BSl. *worwos”
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “varnas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 491: “BSL *worwos >> *wornos”
  4. ^ Balto-Slavic Mobility as an Indo-European Problem, J. Jasanoff
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