Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/swé

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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

Alternative reconstructions

Etymology

This stem (and its substantive pronoun) was originally a reflexive element referring to all persons and numbers (as in Sanskrit and in Balto-Slavic). Its wider use can still be seen in Homer, when ὅς (hós) means "my own" or "your own" (e.g. Odyssey 11.142, 9.28).

Pronoun

*swé

  1. self (reflexive pronoun)

Declension

Andrew Sihler's reconstruction
singular
nominative –
accusative *s-wé ~ *se
genitive *sé-we ~ *sos (adj.)
ablative *sw-ét
dative *sébʰi ~ *sey, *soy
Donald Ringe's reconstruction
singular
nominative –
accusative *swé ~ *se
genitive *séwe ~ *soy
dative *sébʰye ~ *soy
Robert Beekes' reconstruction
singular
nominative –
accusative *swé
genitive *séwe ~ *soy
dative *sebʰyo, *soy
possessive adjective *swós
Michiel de Vaan's reconstruction
singular
nominative –
accusative *s(w)é ~ *se
genitive *sewe
dative *sebʰyo
poss. adj. *swós

Derived terms

  • Unsorted formations:
    • Proto-Germanic: *sibjō (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *swēbaz
    • Proto-Germanic: *swainaz
    • Proto-Germanic: *swihô
    • Proto-Germanic: *swa (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *swē (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *selbaz
    • Proto-Slavic: *svatъ
    • Latgalian: sevim (“detachedly, apartly”)
    • Latgalian: svõts
    • Latgalian: svainis

Descendants

Coordinate terms

See also

v • d • e
PIE pronouns

*éǵh₂ · *wéy · *túh₂ · *yū́ · *swé · *só · *ís · *kʷís · *h₁énos · *yós

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sē”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 549
  2. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕ, ἑ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 365
  4. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 214, 267
  5. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 416–417
  6. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page ἴδιος of 577-578
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*swe- ‘self, own’”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 361

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