Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gerh₂ōws

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

From the root *gerh₂-.

Noun

*gerh₂ōws ? (oblique stem *gr̥h₂w-) [1][2]

crane (bird)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

According to Kroonen and De Vaan:[1][2]

Nominative: *ǵerh₂-ōw-s
Accusative: *ǵerh₂-ew-m̥
Genitive: *ǵr̥h₂-w-es / -os

Descendants

Balto-Slavic:
- Latvian: dzẽrve
- Lithuanian: gérvė
- Old Prussian: gērwē
- Slavic: *žervъ, *žeravъ
  - East Slavic:
    - Belarusian: жураве́ль (žuravjélʹ)
    - Russian: жура́вль (žurávlʹ)
    - Ukrainian: жураве́ль (žuravélʹ)
  - South Slavic:
    - Bulgarian: жерав (žerav)
    - Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: жерав
      
      Latin: žèrāv
  - West Slavic:
    - Czech: žerav
    - Polish: żuraw
    - Slovak: žeriav
    - Sorbian, Lower: žorawa
    - Sorbian, Upper: žeraw
Italic: *grūs
- Latin: grūs (see there for further descendants)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

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[Kroonen_2013-1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill

[De_Vaan_2008-2] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill