Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/tewas - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Of unclear, possibly imitative, origin;^[1] compare Proto-Indo-European *tata- (“dad”).

*tewas

father
uncle

East Baltic:
- Latgalian: tāvs
- Latvian: tēvs
- Latvian: tēs (kursenieki)
- Lithuanian: tėvas
- Samogitian: tievs
West Baltic:
- Curonian: thewes
- Old Prussian: tāws
- Old Prussian: tiewe (vocative, dialectal, Nadruvia)^[2]
- Sudovian: tews

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 464
^ [1], Adelung, Johann Christoph. Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten. 2. Theil, Vossische Buchhandlung, 1809 (1. Theil 1806), p. 708 (in German)