Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/weh₂t-

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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

*weh₂t-[1]

  1. excited, inspired
  2. possessed, raging

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂t- (14 c, 0 e)
  • *wéh₂t-os
    • Proto-Germanic: *wōdaz (“mad, furious, possessed”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *wáHtas
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *wáHtas
        • Sanskrit: वात (vā́ta, “attacked, assailed, injured, hurt”)[2]
  • *weh₂t-is
    • Proto-Celtic: *wātis (“soothsayer, prophet”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Italic: *wātis
      • Latin: vātēs (“seer, poet, prophet”) (see there for further descendants)
  • *wéh₂t-us
    • Proto-Celtic: *wātus (“poetic inspiration”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *wōþuz
      • Old Norse: óðr (“mind, soul; poetry, poem”)
  • *wéh₂t-eh₂
  • *woh₂t-o-[3]
  • *wóh₂t-yo-s
    • >? Proto-Germanic: *wōþijaz (“pleasant”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Unsorted formations:
    • Proto-Germanic: *Wōdanaz (“Odin”) (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “Proto-Indo-European/weh₂t-”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0934.
  3. ^ Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 774
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