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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/táwros
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This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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
Etymology
Akin to Proto-Semitic *θawr- (“bull, ox”); may be borrowed from or into, or possibly both from a common unknown source.
Inflection
| Thematic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *táwros | ||
| genitive | *táwrosyo | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *táwros | *táwroh₁ | *táwroes |
| vocative | *táwre | *táwroh₁ | *táwroes |
| accusative | *táwrom | *táwroh₁ | *táwroms |
| genitive | *táwrosyo | *? | *táwrooHom |
| ablative | *táwread | *? | *táwromos |
| dative | *táwroey | *? | *táwromos |
| locative | *táwrey, *táwroy | *? | *táwroysu |
| instrumental | *táwroh₁ | *? | *táwrōys |
Descendants
- Balto-Slavic: *tauras
- Celtic: *tarwos (see there for further descendants)
- Germanic: *steuraz, *þeuraz (see there for further descendants)
- Hellenic: *táuros
- Ancient Greek: ταῦρος (taûros)
- Italic: *tauros
- Latin: taurus (see there for further descendants)
- Indo-Iranian: *stáwras
- Iranian: *stáwrah (see there for further descendants)
- Lusitanian: taurom
References
- Mallory, James Patrick (1989) In Search of the Indo-Europeans, Thames and Hudson, →ISBN, p. 150
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 82
- Anthony, David (2007) The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Princeton University Press, →ISBNp. 147
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