Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dʰewbʰ-

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.

Proto-Indo-European

Alternative forms

• *dʰewb-

Root

*dʰewbʰ-

1. ? hazy, unclear, dark
2. deep

Derived terms

• *dʰewbʰ-é-ti
  • Proto-Slavic: *ďubati (see there for further descendants)
• *dʰowbʰ-éye-ti (causative)
  • Proto-Germanic: *daupijaną (see there for further descendants)
• *dʰéwbʰ-et-o-s
  • Proto-Albanian: *deubeta
    • Arbëresh Albanian: dejët, deejt, dejt (“sea”)
      • Gheg Albanian: dēt (South Gheg)
      • Albanian: det
• *dʰewbʰ-nó-s
  • Proto-Germanic: *deupaz (see there for further descendants)
• *dʰéwbʰ-u-s
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dubus
    • Latvian: dobs
    • Lithuanian: dubùs
• *dʰubʰ-nó-s
• *dʰub⁽ʰ⁾-ó-s
  • *budʰ-ó-s (metathesized)
    • Proto-Hellenic: *butʰós (or *tʰubós, if the metathesis happened later)
      • >? Ancient Greek: βυθός (buthós, “depth”), βυσσός (bussós)
        • Greek: βυθός (vythós)
• *dʰubʰ-ró-s
• *bʰudʰ-mḗn (possibly, with metathesis)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Albanian:
    • >? Albanian: dudum (“dumb person, fool”)
  • Proto-Albanian: *deupa
    • Albanian: djep
  • Proto-Germanic: *dumbaz (“mute, dumb”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Hellenic:
    • >? Ancient Greek: τυφλός (tuphlós, “unseen, obscure, hazy, dark; blind”)
      • Greek: τυφλός (tyflós)

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