Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ḱeh₁s-

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

Root

*ḱeh₁s-

1. to teach, to indicate

Derived terms

• *ḱeh₁s-ti (athematic present)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ćáHsti (see there for further descendants)
• *ḱeh₁s-trom
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ćaHstram
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *śaHstram
      • Sanskrit: शास्त्र (śāstrá, “teaching; order, command; precept, rule”)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Tocharian: *käṣṣī (“teacher, master”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Germanic: *hazjaną

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 533, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 533
• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 356