Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peh₂-

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

    *peh₂-[1][2][3]

    1. to protect, to ward
    2. to shepherd

    Usage notes edit

    Semantic shift from "protector" towards "shepherd, herder" can be seen in many branches, signifying the importance of herding. Unusual is the o-grade root in Greek ποιμήν (poimḗn, shepherd, herdsman), where the abstract nomina agentis suffix *-mn̥ usually binds e-grade, but that hardly seems sufficient to reconstruct *h₃ in the root and to separate it from *peh₂-.

    Derived terms edit

    • *peh₂(y)-
      • Proto-Albanian: *pa ̊
    • *péh₂-ti ~ *ph₂-énti (athematic root present)
    • *péh₂-s-ti ~ *ph₂-s-énti (s-present)[4][5]
    • *ph₂-sḱé-ti (*sḱé-present)
      • Proto-Italic: *pāskō (possibly; enlarged into a sḱe-present)
        • Latin: pāscō (put to graze)
      • Proto-Tocharian: *pāsk-
        • Tocharian A: pās- ("to look after, guard")
        • Tocharian: paskenträ
    • *poh₂-t-éye- or *ph₂-t-éye- (enlarged causative)
      • Proto-Germanic: *fōdijaną (to feed) (see there for further descendants)
      • Hellenic:
    • *ph₂-t-éh₂-(ye)-
      • Proto-Germanic: *fadōną (to graze, feed oneself) (see there for further descendants)
    • *poh₂-mn̥
      • Hellenic:
        • Ancient Greek: πῶμα (pôma, lid, cover)
    • *poh₂-i-mn̥
    • *poh₂-yus
    • *ph₂tḗr (father)
    • *peh₂-tew-
      • Iranian: *pātew-
      • Iranian: *ā-pāta- "city, cultivated"
        • Persian: آباد (âbâd, inhabited, cultivated; city, habitation)
        • Bactrian: αβαδο (abado, cultivated)
        • Kurdish:
          • Central Kurdish: awedan (built; inhabited; florishing)
          • Northern Kurdish: ava (built; inhabited; florishing)
      • Iranian: *ā-pāta-na "city hall"
      • Armenian *pawta- "flock" (with metathesis):
    • *peh₂-lo-
      • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
    • *peh₂-tro- (guarder, protector, keeper)
    • *peh₂-dʰlom
    • *peh₂-dʰrom
      • Proto-Germanic: *fōdrą (fodder, sheath) (see there for further descendants)
    • *Péh₂-usōn[6]
      • Hellenic:
      • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *puHšā́
        • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *puHṣā́
          • Sanskrit: पूषन् (pūṣán, Vedic god of meeting, marriages, journeys, roads, and the feeding of cattle)
    • *péh₂-tōr ~ ph₂-tr-és (protector, guardian)
    • Unsorted formations:
      • Armenian:
      • Proto-Germanic: *fōdô (food) (see there for further descendants)
      • Proto-Germanic: *fōstrą (fostering) (see there for further descendants)
      • Hellenic:
        • Ancient Greek: πῶυ (pôu, flock of sheep)
      • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *paH-
        • Proto-Iranian: *paH-
          • Kurdish:
            • Northern Kurdish: payîn (to wait, to anticipate)
          • Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠 (p-a /⁠pā-⁠/)
            • Middle Persian: [script needed] (NTLWNtn'), to protect, guard (pʾtn' /⁠pādan⁠/)
      • Italic:

    References edit

    1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pā-: pə-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 787
    2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pō(i)-: (pəi- ?:) pī-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 839
    3. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*peh₂(i̯)-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 460
    4. ^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “paḫš-a(ri), paḫš-i”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 707-709
    5. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pasti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 392
    6. ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 434