Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/negʷ-

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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

Root

*negʷ-

  1. bare, naked

Derived terms

  • *nogʷ-ó-s
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *nōˀgás (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *nāgás
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *nāgás
        • Sanskrit: नाग (nāgá, elephant, literally the hairless one)
    • *nogʷ-éh₂-ye-ti
      • Proto-Germanic: *nakwōną (see there for further descendants)
  • *nogʷ-edʰ-o-s
    • Proto-Italic: *nogʷedos (see there for further descendants)
  • *nogʷ-ónt-
    • Proto-Germanic: *nakwadaz (see there for further descendants)
  • *nogʷ-nó-s
  • *negʷ-m-ont-
  • *nogʷ-tó-s
    • Proto-Celtic: *noxtos (naked) (see there for further descendants)
  • (possibly) *nókʷt-s (< *nógʷt-s, see there for further descendants)
  • (possibly) *negʷ-ro-s
    • Pre-Armenian: *megʷ-ro-
  • (perhaps) negʷ-no-
  • (highly hypothetical) *nogʷno-

Notes

Perhaps because of its expressive meaning the word was subject to a good deal of morphological and occasionally phonological reshaping.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 513–515
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 769
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 339
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*nakwe/ada-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nūdus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 417-418
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 45
  7. ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 6
  8. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 294
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 463–465