Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₃ekʷ-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European edit

Root edit

*h₃ekʷ-

to see
eye

Derived terms edit

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ekʷ-‎ (51 c, 0 e)

*h₃ékʷ-yeh₁-tor
- Proto-Hellenic: *óťťomai
  - Ancient Greek: ὄσσομαι (óssomai)
*h₃ékʷ-s-e-tor (s desiderative)?
- Proto-Hellenic: *ókʷsomai
  - Ancient Greek: ὄψομαι (ópsomai)
*h₃ókʷs
*h₃ékʷ-ti-s ~ *h₃kʷ-téy-s
- Proto-Hellenic: *ókʷtis
  - Ancient Greek: ὄψις f (ópsis) (see there for further descendants)
*h₃ékʷ-mn̥ ~ *h₃kʷ-mén-s
- Proto-Hellenic: *ókʷmə
  - Ancient Greek: ὄμμα n (ómma, “eye”)
*h₃okʷ-éh₂
- Proto-Hellenic: *okʷā́
  - Ancient Greek: ὀπή (opḗ, “sight; opening, hole”) (see there for further descendants)
*h₃ekʷ-(e)lo-s, *h₃okʷ-(e)lo-s (grade uncertain, the diminutivisation is probably secondary^[1])
- Proto-Italic: *okʷ(e)los
  - Latin: oculus (“eye”) (see there for further descendants)
*h₂énti-h₃kʷ-o-s
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hanti(H)kás
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Hanti(H)kás
    - Sanskrit: अन्तिक (antiká, “near, in the vicinity; nearness, proximity”)
- Proto-Italic: *antīkʷos
  - Latin: antīquus (see there for further descendants)
*h₁éni-h₃kʷ-o-
- Proto-Celtic: *enīkʷom
  - Brythonic:
    - Old Breton: enep
    - Old Cornish: eneb
    - Old Welsh: enep
      - Middle Welsh: wyneb
  - Primitive Irish: ᚔᚅᚓᚊᚐᚌᚂᚐᚄ (ineqaglas)
    - Old Irish: enech (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *enōkʷā́
  - Ancient Greek: ἐνωπή (enōpḗ)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *HániHkas
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *HániHkas
    - Sanskrit: अनीक (ánīka)
  - Proto-Iranian: *HániHkah
    - Avestan: 𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌𐬐𐬀 (aⁱnika)
    - Northern Kurdish: enî (“forehead”)
    - Middle Persian: [script needed] (anîg, “front, forehead”)
*préti-h₃kʷ-o-s
- Proto-Hellenic: *prótsōkʷon
  - Ancient Greek: πρόσωπον (prósōpon)
- Indo-Iranian:
  - Indo-Aryan:
    - Sanskrit: प्रतीक (prátīka)
Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Tocharian: *ekʷṣäliē^[2] (see there for further descendants)

References edit

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “oculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425
^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ekṣalye”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 80-81

Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₃ekʷ-

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