Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʷem-

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.

Perhaps some variation or gradation of *gʷeh₂- seen also on *mendʰ- - *meh₂dʰ-, *med- - *meh₁-/*meh₁d-.

*gʷem- (perfective)

1. to step^[1]

• *gʷém-t ~ *gʷm-ént (root aorist)
• *gʷm̥-sḱé-ti (sḱe-present)^[1]
• *gʷm̥-yé-ti (ye-present)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *gʷəňňō (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *gʷənjō (< earlier *gʷəmjō) (see there for further descendants)
• *gʷḿ̥s
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *gás
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *gás
      • Sanskrit: ग (ga)
• *gʷém-e-ti
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ǰámati (see there for further descendants)
• *gʷe-gʷóm-e ~ *gʷe-gʷm-ḗr (stative)
• *gʷém-ti-s ~ *gʷm̥-téy-s
• *gʷém-tu-s ~ *gʷm̥-téw-s
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *gántuš
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *gántuṣ
      • Sanskrit: गन्तु (gántu)
  • Proto-Italic: *gʷentus
    • Latin: ventus
• *gʷm̥-tó-s
• *gʷm̥-dʰ-mo-
  • Proto-Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: βαθμός (bathmós)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Albanian: *gat
    • Albanian: gati
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: եկ (ek)
      • Armenian: եկ (ek)
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Old Prussian: gemton (“to give birth (to)”)
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Lithuanian: gỹmis (“birth; nature; face”)^[2]
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Lithuanian: giminė̃ (“family, kin; genus; gender; (dial.) relative”)^[3]
      • → Latvian: ģimene
    • Sudovian: gimna (“family; uncles, their wives”)
  • Proto-Tocharian: *kʷäm-
    • Tocharian A: kum-
    • Tocharian B: käm-