Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/hortos
Proto-Italic
editEtymology
editFrom earlier *xortos (to differentiate it from a later form *hortos if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos, from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). De Vaan is suspicious of the o-grade in the Celtic and Greek cognates (*-tós usually demanding the zero grade), believing that the similar o-grade *gʰórdʰos (from *gʰerdʰ- + *-os) must have contaminated it.[1]
Noun
edit*hortos m
Inflection
edito-stemDeclension of *hortos (o-stem) | ||
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case | singular | plural |
nominative | *hortos | *hortōs, hortoi |
vocative | *horte | *hortōs, hortoi |
accusative | *hortom | *hortons |
genitive | *hortosjo, hortī | *hortom |
dative | *hortōi | *hortois |
ablative | *hortōd | *hortois |
locative | *hortei | *hortois |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “hortus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 290-291