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

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

Etymology

From *sneygʷʰ- +‎ *-s.

Noun

*snéykʷs m

1. snow

Declension

Athematic, hysterokinetic
	singular
nominative	*snéykʷs
genitive	*snigʷʰés
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*snéykʷs	*snéygʷʰh₁(e)	*snéygʷʰes
vocative	*snéygʷʰ	*snéygʷʰh₁(e)	*snéygʷʰes
accusative	*snéygʷʰm̥	*snéygʷʰh₁(e)	*snéygʷʰm̥s
genitive	*snigʷʰés	*?	*snigʷʰóHom
ablative	*snigʷʰés	*?	*snigʷʰmós
dative	*snigʷʰéy	*?	*snigʷʰmós
locative	*snéygʷʰ, *snéygʷʰi	*?	*snigʷʰsú
instrumental	*snigʷʰéh₁	*?	*snigʷʰmís

Derived terms

• *snoygʷʰ-ó-s
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *snáigas m (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Germanic: *snaiwaz m (see there for further descendants)

• *sngʷʰ-h₂-s
  • Proto-Hellenic: *hnikʷós
    • Ancient Greek: νιφάς (niphás, nom.sg.), Ancient Greek: νίφα f (nípha, acc.sg.)

• *snigʷʰ-éh₂
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *sniǰʰáH
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *sniźʰáH
      • Sanskrit: *निहा (*nihā́)
        • ⇒ Sanskrit: निहाका (nihā́kā, “blizzard, snowstorm”) (+ -का (-kā))

• *snigʷʰ-ó-s
  • Proto-Celtic: *snigʷos
    • Proto-Brythonic: *hnɨw
      • Welsh: nyf m (“snow”)

• *snígʷʰ-i
  • Proto-Tocharian:
    • Chazumba Mixtec: śin̄catstse (“snowy”)

• *snigʷʰ-yó-s
  • Proto-Celtic: *snigʷyos
    • Old Irish: snechtae m (“snow”) (see there for further descendants)

• *snigʷʰ-yéh₂
  • Proto-Celtic: *snigʷyā
    • Old Irish: snige f (“snow”)

• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *snáyǰʰas
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *snáyźʰas
    • Sanskrit: स्नेह (snéha, “greasiness, slime; body fluid, etc.”)
    • Prakrit: siṇēha ("snow")

Descendants

• Indo-Iranian:
  • Shughni: жиниҷ (žiniǰ)
• Proto-Italic: *sniks
  • Latin: nix

References

• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 573
• Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 349
• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 457
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 974
• Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 772
• Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 622–623
• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 530
• Buck, Carl Darling (1949) A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, § 1.76, pages 68—69
• Gamkrelidze, Th. V., Ivanov, V. V. (1995) Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 80), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 587
• Watkins, Calvert (1985) “sneigʷh-”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt