Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/-ę

Etymology
Nominative singular ending reflects Early Proto-Slavic, a regular reflex of a pre-form. Slavic nt-stems have no clear comparison in other Indo-European languages. It is usually compared to Latvian nouns in which also often denote young animals with three possible theories of origin:
 * Slavic suffix originated in Proto-Slavic, by agglutination of the inherited Balto-Slavic  and a secondary suffix  of obscure origin.
 * Balto-Slavic inflection exhibited ablaut, with Slavic generalizing normal grade and Baltic generalizing lengthened grade, with the origin of Slavic *-t- remaining unexplained.
 * Balto-Slavic inflection already contained suffix, retained in Slavic but with Baltic generalizing the nominoaccusative stem in  <.

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