Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/pértus

This entry contains Proto-Indo-European reconstructed words 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-Indo-European

Etymology

From *per- (“to penetrate; to cross (water)”) +‎ *-tus.

Noun

*pértus m

1. crossing

Declension

Declension of *pértus

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*pértus	*pértuh₁	*pértewes
Vocative	*pértu	*pértuh₁	*pértewes
Accusative	*pértum	*pértuh₁	*pértuns
Instrumental	*pr̥túh₁	?	*pr̥túbʰi
Dative	*pr̥téwey	?	*pr̥túmos
Ablative	*pr̥téws	?	*pr̥túmos
Genitive	*pr̥téws	?	*pr̥téwoHom
Locative	*pr̥téw(i)	?	*pr̥túsu

Descendants

• Proto-Germanic: *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”)
  • Old Norse: fjǫrðr
    • Icelandic: fjörður
    • Faeroese: fjørður
    • Norwegian: fjord
    • Swedish: fjärd, fjord
    • Danish: fjord
    • English: firth
• Proto-Germanic: *furduz (“ford”) (from the oblique stem, apparently had already become a separate word in Germanic)
  • Old English: ford
    • English: ford
  • Old Frisian: forda
  • Old Saxon: ford
  • Old Dutch: *fort
    • Middle Dutch: vort
      • Dutch: voord, voorde
  • Old High German: furt
    • German: Furt

• Indo-Iranian
  • Iranian
    • Kurdish:
      • Kurmanji: pir (bridge)
      • Sorani: pird (bridge)
      • Zazaki: pird (bridge)
• Italic:
  • Latin: portus
    • Asturian: puertu
    • Catalan: port
    • French: port
    • Galician: porto
    • Italian: porto
    • Occitan: pòrt
    • Portuguese: porto
    • Romanian: port
    • Spanish: puerto