Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gerh₂ōws

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 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

Etymology

From *gerh₂- (“crane”).

Noun

*gerh₂ōws ? (oblique stem *gr̥h₂w-)[1][2]

  1. crane (bird)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

According to Kroonen and De Vaan:[1][2]

  • Nominative: *ǵerh₂-ōw-s
  • Accusative: *ǵerh₂-ew-m̥
  • Genitive: *ǵr̥h₂-w-es / -os

Descendants

Depalatalization in Baltic possibly due to zero-grade.[3]

  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Eastern Baltic:[4]
      • Latvian: dzẽrve
      • Lithuanian: gérvė
    • Western Baltic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *žervъ, *žeravъ[5][4]
      • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *žeravľь (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *grūs
    • Latin: grūs (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grūs, -uis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
  3. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “γέρανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “gervė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 172
  5. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*žeravъ m. jo ‘crane’”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558
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