Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁su-
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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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possible metathesis of *h₁wes- (“good”), or perhaps related to *h₁es- (“to be”).[1]
Hittite 𒀀𒀸𒋗𒍑 (āššuš, “good”) and possibly Epic Greek ἠΰς (ēǘs, id.) provide strong evidence for a u-stem adjective *h₁óh₁s-u-s, gen.sg. *h₁h₁s-éw-s,[2] which would point to a reduplicated root *h₁es-. Since Proto-Indo-European apparently did not allow geminate clusters, the weak stem would have simplified to *h₁s-éw-; this could be the source of the combining form *h₁su-, with which it would be identical in the zero-grade.
Prefix[edit]
*h₁su-[3]
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-Celtic: *su- (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *su-
- Proto-Hellenic: *ehu- (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hsu- (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: հ- (h-) (or inherited and contaminated with the Iranian)
References[edit]
- ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “h₁u̯es-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 686-690
- ^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “āššu- / āššau̯-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 223–225
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “su-, sū-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1037-1038