Reconstruction:Proto-Hellenic/hekətón
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This Proto-Hellenic 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-Hellenic edit
| ← 10 | ← 90 | 100 | 1,000 → | |
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| 10 | ||||
| Cardinal: *hekətón | ||||
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm with unexpected prefix *he-, the origin of which is disputed:
- probably by analogy with *hen- (“one”), thus a compound “one hundred”, but this does not explain the loss of /n/;
- perhaps from earlier *hə- (equivalent to the zero-grade of the above), from Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- (“whole, one”), with a vowel change due to either dissimilation or influence from full-grade *hen- (cf. also PIE *sm̥-ǵʰesl- (“one thousand”));
- according to Kortlandt, from *ekətón with sporadic aspiration (maybe due to folk-etymological contamination by *hen-), wholly inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ḱm̥tóm. Per his version of glottalic theory, this reflects pre-PIE **dḱm̥tóm, thus providing a link to *déḱm̥ (“ten”).[1][2] Compare *ewī́kəti (“twenty”).
Numeral edit
*hekətón
Descendants edit
- Ancient Greek: ἑκατόν (hekatón) (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ^ Kortlandt, Frederik (1983) “Greek numerals and PIE glottalic consonants”, in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft [Munich Studies in Linguistics], volume 42, pages 97–104
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἑκατόν”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397