Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pértus

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 *per- (“to penetrate; to cross (water)”) +‎ *-tus.

Noun

*pértus m^[1]

crossing

Inflection

Athematic, proterokinetic
	singular
nominative	*pértus
genitive	*pr̥téws
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pértus	*pértuh₁(e)	*pértewes
vocative	*pértu	*pértuh₁(e)	*pértewes
accusative	*pértum	*pértuh₁(e)	*pértums
genitive	*pr̥téws	*?	*pr̥téwoHom
ablative	*pr̥téws	*?	pr̥túmos, pr̥túbʰos
dative	*pr̥téwey	*?	pr̥túmos, pr̥túbʰos
locative	pr̥téw, pr̥téwi	*?	*pr̥túsu
instrumental	*pr̥túh₁	*?	pr̥túmis, pr̥túbʰis

Descendants

Proto-Celtic: *ɸritus (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Germanic: *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Germanic: *furduz (“ford”) (see there for further descendants) (from the oblique stem, apparently had already become a separate word in Germanic)
Proto-Indo-Iranian: *pr̥túš
- Proto-Iranian: *pr̥túš (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Italic: *portus (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Cabolov, R. L. (2010) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ kurdskovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Kurdish Language] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Russian Academy Press Vostochnaya Literatura, page 113

[1] Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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