Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wiHrós
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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
Etymology
According to some, *wiHrós is derived from the verb *weyh₁- (“to hunt”) (cf. Sanskrit वेति (véti), Lithuanian výti etc.), which would render the reconstruction as *wih₁rós, with *h₁ at the place of otherwise unreconstructable laryngeal *H, and the original meaning of "hunter".
Noun
*wiHrós m
Inflection
| Thematic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *wiHrós | ||
| genitive | *wiHrósyo | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *wiHrós | *wiHróh₁ | *wiHróes |
| vocative | *wiHré | *wiHróh₁ | *wiHróes |
| accusative | *wiHróm | *wiHróh₁ | *wiHróms |
| genitive | *wiHrósyo | *? | *wiHróHom |
| ablative | *wiHréad | *? | *wiHrómos |
| dative | *wiHróey | *? | *wiHrómos |
| locative | *wiHréy, *wiHróy | *? | *wiHróysu |
| instrumental | *wiHróh₁ | *? | *wiHrṓys |
Reconstruction notes
Germanic, Celtic, and Italic forms point to a short *i, with loss of the root laryngeal, which is reconstructed on the basis of Sanskrit and Lithuanian (Balto-Slavic acute, retracted to the root vowel by Hirt's law) forms.
Hypernyms
Descendants
- Proto-Armenian:
- (possibly) Old Armenian: ամուրի (amuri, “husbandless”)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *wī́ˀras (“husband, man”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *wiros (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *weraz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *wīros (“hunter”) (possibly)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *wiHrás (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *wiros (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Tocharian: *wir
- Tocharian A: wir (“youthful, young, fresh”)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἱέραξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 579-580