Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/kaput

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 Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“seize, hold”), possibly of substrate origin.

Noun

*kaput n

head

Inflection

consonant stemDeclension of *kaput (consonant stem)
case	singular	plural
nominative	*kaput	*kaputā
vocative	*kaput	*kaputā
accusative	*kaput	*kaputā
genitive	*kaputes, kaputos	*kaputom
dative	*kaputei	*kaputəβos
ablative	*kaputi? kapute?	*kaputəβos
locative	*kaputi? kapute?	*kaputəβos

Derived terms

*-kaputis

Descendants

Latin: caput (see there for further descendants)
South Picene: qupat

References

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^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caput, -itis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 91

[1] {The template Template:R:Schrijver:1997 does not use the parameter(s): 1=293-297
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[2] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caput, -itis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 91

Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/kaput

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