User:Victar/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁wedH-

This 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

Root edit

*h₁wedH-[1]

  1. to join (in a pledge), wed

Alternative reconstructions edit

  • *h₂wedʰ-, *h₂wedʰH-[2]

Yzgh. wa‹-/west [verb] `to marry a woman' Avestan: Av. vad- [verb] `to lead': OAv. vadЌmna- [ptc.pres.med.] ( Y 53.5) {1}, YAv. vѓ‹aiieiti [3sg.caus.act.], vѓ‹aiiamna- [ptc.caus.med.], upa.vѓ‹aiiaЊta [3sg.caus.opt.med.] ( V 14.15) `to marry (a woman)' xwywdg'n, wydwtk'n /wayЎdagѓn/ `nuptials, marriage' (< *uёadu-uёad- `home-taking of the bride')

MW dy-weddiЁo `to marry';

Derived terms edit

  • *h₁wédʰ-e-ti
    • Proto-Germanic: *wedaną (to conjoin) (see there for further descendants)


  • *wódʰ-s
    • Proto-Italic: *woss
      • Latin: vas (surety)
  • *wodʰ-yo-m
    • Proto-Germanic: *wadją (wager, stake, pledge) (see there for further descendants)
      • Proto-Germanic: *wadjōną (see there for further descendants)
  • *h₁wéd-mō ~ *h₁ud-m̥nés[3][4][4]
    • Proto-Germanic: *wetmô (dowry, bride price) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Hellenic: *ewedʰmos
      • Ancient Greek: ἐθμοί (ethmoí, multitudes, bonds, locks (of hair))
  • *h₁wed-no-m[4][3][5]
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *wedna
      • Proto-Slavic: *vě̑no (dowry, bride price) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Hellenic: *ewednon
      • Ancient Greek: ἕδνον (hédnon, dowry, bride price)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page *h₂u̯edh(hₓ)-:369
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wetman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 583
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “374”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page ἕδνα
  5. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*vě̑no”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 519-520