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However, de Vaan notes that this series of semantic shifts is quite unlikely, and prefers Vine's theory deriving the word from a Proto-Indo-European*genH-(“to call”) (with replacement of *-n > -m on the model of semantically similar verbs like fremō(“to roar”) and tremō(“to tremble”)), whence Ancient Greekγέγωνᾰ(gégōnă, “to shout”), Tocharian Aken-(“to call”).[2]
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gemō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 257
Further reading
“gemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“gemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
gemo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
gemo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016