Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/plúsis

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 edit

Reconstruction edit

The original PIE form was distorted by folk etymologies in various daughters, though most of them point to something like *plúsis, with the voiceless initial stop, and the root sequence of *-lu-. Other variant root forms are *plows- *pusl-, *psul- or *bʰlus-.

Noun edit

*plúsis

flea

Inflection edit

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants edit

Proto-Albanian: *pleustā < *plews-
- Albanian: plesht
Armenian: < *pluso-
- Old Armenian: լու (lu)
  - Armenian: լու (lu)
Proto-Balto-Slavic: *blúšāˀ < *b(ʰ)lus-eh₂ (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Germanic: *flauhaz < *plówkos (see there for further descendants)
Hellenic: < *psuly(e)h₂ < *plus-y(e)h₂
- Ancient Greek: ψύλλα (psúlla)
  - Greek: ψύλλος (psýllos)
Proto-Indo-Iranian: *plúšiš
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *plúṣiṣ
  - Sanskrit: प्लुषि (plúṣi)
- Proto-Iranian: *frúšiš
  - Pashto: ورږه (wrə́ẓ̌a) (under the influence of سپږه (spə́ẓ̌a))
  - Yidgha: [script needed] (frīgo)
Italic: < *puslek- < *plus-ek-
- Latin: pūlex (see there for further descendants)

References edit

Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 206