Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/duwō

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Proto-Albanian *duwō.

Numeral[edit]

*duwō[1][2]

Proto-Balto-Slavic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : *duwō
  1. two

Inflection[edit]

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: div, divi, diveji
    • Latvian: divi
    • Lithuanian: , dvì
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *dъva (see there for further descendants)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*d(ъ)va”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 130:*duoʔ; *duoiʔ
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “du”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 143:*duoʔ