Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/feros

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This Proto-Italic 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-Italic

Etymology

    From earlier *xʷeros, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwéros, from *ǵʰwer- (wild animal).

    Adjective

    *feros[1]

    1. wild, savage

    Declension

    Descendants

    • Latin: ferus (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