Reconstruction:Proto-Hellenic/ə-
Proto-Hellenic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *n̥- (“un-”).[1]
Alternative forms
edit- *ən- (before words beginning with a vowel)
- *nē-, *nā-, *nō- (before words beginning with a short vowel originating from a PIE laryngeal)
Prefix
edit*ə-
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀ- 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1