Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-kʷe

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

Etymology

See *kʷis.

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Conjunction

*-kʷe

1. and

   *h₂ówis *h₁éḱwoeskʷe ― the sheep and the horses (literally, “[the] sheep [the] horses-and”)

   Antonym: *-wē (“or”)

2. Forms distributives from interrogatives.

Descendants

• Proto-Albanian: *dže
  • Albanian: dhe
• Proto-Anatolian: *-ku
  • Hittite: 𒊌𒆪 (uk-ku /⁠(=k)ku⁠/)
  • Luwian: 𒆪 (ku)
  • Palaic: 𒆪 (ku)
• Proto-Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: -եք (-ekʻ)
• Proto-Celtic: *-kʷe (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Germanic: *-hw (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Hellenic: *-kʷe
  • Ancient Greek: τε (te)
  • Mycenaean Greek: 𐀤 (qe /⁠-kʷe⁠/)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *-ča (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Italic: *-kʷe (see there for further descendants)
• Phrygian: κε (ke)
• (perhaps) Proto-Albanian: *tśe
  • Albanian: s- / -s (“not”)
• ⇒ Proto-Balto-Slavic: *es-ke
  • Proto-Slavic: *(j)eš-če (“yet, still”) (possibly a compound of *h₁es- (“to be”) +‎ *-kʷe) (see there for further descendants)

References

• Wikander, Ola (2008) Ett träd med vida grenar: de indoeuropeiska språkens historia (in Swedish), Stockholm: Prisma, →ISBN