Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂énti
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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
Locative singular case of the root noun *h₂énts (“forehead, front”).
Adverb
*h₂énti
Related terms
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian: *antā
- Proto-Anatolian:
- Hittite: 𒄩𒀭𒍝 (ḫa-an-za /ḫants/, “in front”)
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: ընդ (ənd, “to, at, towards, by”)
- Proto-Germanic: *andi (“and, also, against”) (see there for further descendants)
- Hellenic:
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hanti
- Proto-Italic: *anti
Further reading
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
References
- ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7) (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 77
- ^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “ḫant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 287–289
- ^ According to Kloekhorst (2008: 289), Hittite ḫants is the regular continuation of the locative in *-i, whereas 𒄩𒀭𒋾 (ḫa-an-ti /ḫanti/, “opposite, against; instead; apart”) is a more recent formation from the synchronic dative–locative singular in Hittite.
- ^ Buck, Carl (1904) A grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, Ginn & Co, page 29