Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/wīs
Proto-Italic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s (“force, vehemence”), from *weyh₁- (“to rush”).
Noun
edit*wīs f[1]
Declension
editThe declension is almost a regular third declension noun, but the genitive singular always uses -es rather than having -os as an option and the accusative singular's ending has been reduced to just the letter "m" itself, rather than -em as one would expect.
consonant stem, irregularDeclension of *wīs (consonant stem, irregular) | ||
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case | singular | plural |
nominative | *wīs | — |
vocative | *wīs | — |
accusative | *wīm | — |
genitive | *wīes | — |
dative | *wīei | — |
ablative | *wīe | — |
locative | *wīe | — |
Descendants
edit- Latin: vīs (with plural forms from an extended form of the root, possibly the same root as vir)
- Faliscan: ves
References
edit- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 683