Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/swé

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

Alternative reconstructions edit

Etymology edit

This stem (and its substantive pronoun) was originally a reflexive element referring to all persons and numbers (as in Sanskrit and in Balto-Slavic). Its wider use can still be seen in Homer, when ὅς (hós) means "my own" or "your own" (e.g. Odyssey 11.142, 9.28).

Pronoun edit

*swé

  1. self (reflexive pronoun)

Declension edit

Andrew Sihler's reconstruction
singular
nominative
accusative *s-wé ~ *se
genitive *sé-we ~ *sos (adj.)
ablative *sw-ét
dative *sébʰi ~ *sey, *soy
Donald Ringe's reconstruction
singular
nominative
accusative *swé ~ *se
genitive *séwe ~ *soy
dative *sébʰye ~ *soy
Robert Beekes' reconstruction
singular
nominative
accusative *swé
genitive *séwe ~ *soy
dative *sebʰyo, *soy
possessive adjective *swós
Michiel de Vaan's reconstruction
singular
nominative
accusative *s(w)é ~ *se
genitive *sewe
dative *sebʰyo
poss. adj. *swós

Derived terms edit

  • Unsorted formations:
    • Proto-Germanic: *sibjō (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *swēbaz
    • Proto-Germanic: *swainaz
    • Proto-Germanic: *swihô
    • Proto-Germanic: *swa (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *swē (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *selbaz
    • Proto-Slavic: *svatъ
    • Latgalian: sevim (detachedly, apartly)
    • Latgalian: svõts
    • Latgalian: svainis

Descendants edit

Coordinate terms edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sē”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 549
  2. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕ, ἑ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365
  4. ^ 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, pages 214, 267
  5. ^ 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, pages 416–417
  6. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page ἴδιος of 577-578
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*swe- ‘self, own’”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 361

Further reading edit