Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wreh₁-

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

Reconstruction

The LIV proposes reh₁t- (yielding Proto-Slavic Proto-Slavic: *obrěsti), which might tentatively be a t-extension of this root: (w)reh₁-t-, although this theory is unsupported.

Root

*wreh₁-

1. to find, encounter

Descendants

• Proto-Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: εὑρίσκω (heurískō) (I find out, acquire)
• Proto-Italic:
  • Oscan: ϝουρουστ (wouroust, “will have found”)

References

• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*reh₁t-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 501