Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wed-
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Proto-Indo-European edit
Etymology edit
Possibly related to Proto-Uralic *wete, the source of Finnish vesi and Hungarian víz. The nature of the relationship is unclear and controversial; the word may have been borrowed from Proto-Indo-European into Proto-Uralic, or the reverse. A minority of linguists suggests a common origin from an even earlier proto-language, Indo-Uralic, but this is not generally accepted.
In Proto-Indo-European, the active elemental *wed- (“water”) was contrasted with the passive *h₂ep- (“body of water”), similar to the opposition of the active "fire" *h₁n̥gʷnis with the passive *péh₂wr̥.
Root edit
*wed-
Derived terms edit
- *u-né-d-ti ~ *u-n-d-énti (nasal-infix present)[1]
- *wod-sḱé-ti (o-grade sḱe-present)
- Proto-Germanic: *waskaną (“to wash”) (see there for further descendants)
- *wēd-o-s (“wet”)
- Proto-Germanic: *wētaz
- *wód-r̥ ~ *wéd-n̥-s (“water”)
- *ud-ri-s
- *wed-ro-m
- Proto-Italic: *wedrom
- Latin: vitrum (“glass”)
- Proto-Italic: *wedrom
- *ud-ró-s (“otter”)
- *wéd-os ~ *wéd-es-os (“water”)
- Old Armenian: գետ (get, “river”)
References edit
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*wed-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 658f.
Further reading edit
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 223.5