From *<span class="searchmatch">h</span>₃rḗǵs (“king”) + *-nih₂ (feminizing suffix). *<span class="searchmatch">h</span>₃<span class="searchmatch">rḗǵnih</span>₂ f queen <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Celtic: *rīganī (see there for further descendants) <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Indo</span>-Iranian: *Hrā́ȷ́niH...
stems. <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Indo</span>-<span class="searchmatch">European</span> terms suffixed with *-nih₂ Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Indo</span>-<span class="searchmatch">European</span>/<span class="searchmatch">h</span>₃<span class="searchmatch">rḗǵnih</span>₂ Reconstruction:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Indo</span>-<span class="searchmatch">European</span>/pótnih₂ <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Balto-Slavic:...
From <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Indo</span>-<span class="searchmatch">European</span> *<span class="searchmatch">h</span>₃<span class="searchmatch">rḗǵnih</span>₂. *rīganī f queen <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Brythonic: *rriɣėn Breton: rouanez? Cornish: ruvanes? Middle Welsh: riein (“maiden”) Welsh:...
metathesized from earlier *rēgnīā, rebuilt as an ā-stem from <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Indo</span>-<span class="searchmatch">European</span> *<span class="searchmatch">h</span>₃<span class="searchmatch">rḗǵnih</span>₂, cognate with <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-Celtic *rīganī (“queen”), Sanskrit राज्ञी (rā́jñī...