Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sneygʷʰ-

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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

    *sneygʷʰ-

    1. to snow

    Reconstruction notes

    Karl Hoffmann proposed in 1965 that the original meaning of the root was "to stick, remain", with semantic shift to "snow" (i.e. snow is that which sticks). That sense is still being assigned in LIV. However, that interpretation is highly unlikely, given that all the other daughters except Sanskrit (and also within Indo-Iranian and even Indo-Aryan family itself; cf. Prakrit reflex siṇēha "snow, hoarfrost") point to "to snow" as the original meaning of the root. According to Cheung (2007), Hoffmann's explanation that this meaning could have coexisted with the meaning "to snow" is untenable. Cheung (2007) argues that the Sanskrit meaning "to stick, remain; sticky fluid" is secondary (possibly of slang origin) "perhaps from whitish bodily fluids which are compared to snow, notably snot and spit".

    Derived terms

    Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sneygʷʰ- (28 c, 0 e)
    • *snéygʷʰ-e-ti (thematic root present)
    • *sni-né-gʷʰ-ti ~ *sni-n-gʷʰ-énti (nasal-infix present) ?
      • Proto-Italic:
    • *snigʷʰ-yé-ti (ye-present)
    • *snígʷʰ-s (“snow”)
    • *snóygʷʰ-o-s (“snow”)
    • Unsorted formations:
      • Proto-Balto-Slavic:
      • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
      • Tocharian:
        • Tocharian B: śiñcatstse* (“snowy”), adjectival derivative (cited, as normal, in its masculine nominative singular form, which is projectable from the attested masculine accusative & genitive singulars) of fully-unattested *śiñce (“snow”) < a Proto-Indo-European *snigʷʰ-ēn-

    Descendants

    References

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