Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/meddiks
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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
Alternative reconstructions
Etymology
Uncertain. It is in some way suffixed with *-diks.
De Vaan suggests that the root noun could be reconstructed as *med-, itself possibly related to Proto-Italic *medos. According to De Vaan, the term may have literally meant something to "saying law."
Pulgram suggests that, etymologically, the term may mean something akin to "the middle sayer." The meaning may have evolved to refer to an individual responsible for passing some sort of judgement on situations.
Noun
*meddiks m
- title of some type of magistrate
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | *meddiks | *meddikes |
| vocative | *meddiks | *meddikes |
| accusative | *meddikem | *meddikens |
| genitive | *meddikes, meddikos | *meddikom |
| dative | *meddikei | *meddikβos |
| ablative | *meddiki? meddike? | *meddikβos |
| locative | *meddiki? meddike? | *meddikβos |
Derived terms
- *medikāō
- Oscan: medicatud
- ⇒ Oscan: medicatinom
- *medikjā
- Oscan: 𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌃𐌉𐌊𐌊𐌉𐌀𐌉 (meddikkiai), 𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌉𐌊𐌊𐌉𐌀𐌝 (medikkiaí), μεδικιαι (medikiai)
- *meddikjo-
- *medd(e/i)kā
- Oscan: μεδεκαν (medekan)
- *medjos (adjective)? (disputed)
- >? Venetic: 𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌉𐌉𐌀.𐌉. (mediia.i.)
Descendants
- Oscan: 𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌉𐌔𐌔 (mediss), 𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌃𐌝𐌔 (meddís, nom. sg.)
- Marrucinian: medix
- Marsian: medis, mediss
- Paelignian: medix (nom. pl.)
- Volscian: medix
- ⇒ Umbrian: 𐌌𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌉𐌜𐌀 (mestiça)
- → Latin: meddix
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 385
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 169
- Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary
- Ernst Pulgram (1976) “The Volscian Tabula Veliterna: A New Interpretation”, in Glotta, volume 54, number 3/4, →ISSN, page 260
- Rex Wallace (1984) The Sabellian Languages (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 121
- Frank Heidermanns (2002) “Nominal Composition in Sabellic and Proto–Italic”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 100, number 2, , →ISSN, page 193
- James Clackson (2015) “Subgrouping in the Sabellian branch of Indo-European”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 113, number 1, , →ISSN, page 21
- Alan J. Nussbaum (2022) “Old Latin iouosdica- and Classical iūdicāre”, in Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale
- Nikoletta Farkas (2006) Leadership Among the Samnites and Related Oscan-speaking Peoples Between the Fifth and First Centuries BC., King's College, University of London, page 13