Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/taurás

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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 *táwros (wild bull, aurochs).

Noun[edit]

*taurás m[1][2]

  1. aurochs, wisent

Inflection[edit]

Declension of *taurás (o-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *taurás *táurōˀ *taurái(ˀ)
Accusative *táuran *táurōˀ *táurō(ˀ)ns
Genitive *táurā *taurā́u(ˀ) *taurṓn
Locative *táurai *taurā́u(ˀ) *tauráišu
Dative *táurōi *taurámā(ˀ) *taurámas
Instrumental *táurōˀ *taurámāˀ *taurṓis
Vocative *táure *táurōˀ *taurái(ˀ)

Descendants[edit]

  • East Baltic:
    • Latvian: tàurs
    • Lithuanian: taũras
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *tȗrъ (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Finnic: *tarvas (see there for further descendants)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tȗrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 500:*taurós
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “tauras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460:*taurós