Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/déh₃rom

This Proto-Indo-European 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.

From *dóh₃-r̥ ~ *déh₃-n̥-s (“gift”) +‎ *-om. Alternatively, substantivized from *dh₃-ró-s, *deh₃-ró-s (“given, gifted”), from *deh₃- (“to give”) +‎ *-rós.

*déh₃rom n (non-ablauting)

1. gift

• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: տուր (tur)
• Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dāˀras
  • Proto-Slavic: *dȃrъ (or from *dóh₃r-u-s, *déh₃r-u-s ~ *dh₃r-éw-s) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Hellenic: *dṓron
  • Ancient Greek: δῶρον (dôron)

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• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 363
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