Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/pōtos

This Proto-Italic 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-Italic edit

Reconstruction edit

The expected outcome of inherited *ph₃tós would be *patos (with *CHC > *CəC > *CaC; compare *katos from PIE *ḱh₃tós); therefore *pōtos must either be independently derived from the root or result from the spread of *pō- throughout the paradigm (being reanalyzed as the root).^{[Note 1]}

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *ph₃tós (“(having been) drunk; having drunk”), derived from the root *peh₃- (“to drink”).
Cognate with Proto-Hellenic *potós and Sanskrit पीत (pitá).

Adjective edit

*pōtos^[1]

drunk

Declension edit

Declension of *pōtos (o/ā-stem)

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*pōtos	*pōtā	*pōtom
Vocative	*pōte	*pōta	*pōtom
Accusative	*pōtom	*pōtam	*pōtom
Genitive	*pōtosjo, pōtī	*pōtās	*pōtosjo, pōtī
Dative	*pōtōi	*pōtāi	*pōtōi
Ablative	*pōtōd	*pōtād	*pōtōd
Locative	*pōtei	*pōtāi	*pōtei
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*pōtōs, pōtoi	*pōtās	*pōtā
Vocative	*pōtōs, pōtoi	*pōtās	*pōtā
Accusative	*pōtons	*pōtans	*pōtā
Genitive	*pōtom	*pōtāzōm	*pōtom
Dative	*pōtois	*pōtais	*pōtois
Ablative	*pōtois	*pōtais	*pōtois
Locative	*pōtois	*pōtais	*pōtois

Related terms edit

*pibō
*pōtlom (“drinking cup”)

Descendants edit

Latin: pōtus
- → Italian: poto
- ⇒ Latin: pōtō (see there for further descendants)

Notes edit

^ De Vaan explains: “The full grade of [Latin] pōtus ‘drunk’ must have been introduced from the root aorist. Pōtus and pō-culum have caused the spread of pō- in the other derivatives.”

References edit

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pōtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 485: “PIt. *pōto- ‘drunk’”

[1] De Vaan explains: “The full grade of [Latin] pōtus ‘drunk’ must have been introduced from the root aorist. Pōtus and pō-culum have caused the spread of pō- in the other derivatives.”

[2] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “pōtus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 485: “PIt. *pōto- ‘drunk’”

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