Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/swéḱs
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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 forms
Etymology
Given the attested forms in the daughter languages, some have proposed that the original form was *wéḱs (whence Armenian, Old Prussian and possibly Ancient Greek). The initial *s- would then be secondary (imported from *septḿ̥), and when it was just added the result was *swéḱs (Celtic, Iranian, and Ancient Greek if it is not from *wéḱs), whereas when it was substituted for the original consonant, the result was *séḱs (Sanskrit, Latin, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian).
Numeral
| < 5 | 6 | 7 > |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal : *swéḱs Ordinal : *sweḱstós | ||
*swéḱs
Derived terms
- *swéḱsdḱomt (see there for further descendants)
- *suḱstós
- >? Old Prussian: usts
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian: *seksti (see there for further descendants)
- Armenian:
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *šéš (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *swexs (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *sehs (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *hwéks (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *šwáćš (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *seks (see there for further descendants)
- Tocharian:
- → Proto-Kartvelian: *eks₁w- (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
References
- ^ 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, page 313
- ^ Fortson, Benjamin W. (2004, 2010) Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell
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