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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/weh₂t-

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

Root

*weh₂t- [1]

  1. excited, inspired
  2. possessed, raging

Derived terms
► <a href='/wiki/Category:Terms_derived_from_the_PIE_root_*weh%E2%82%82t-' title='Category:Terms derived from the PIE root *weh₂t-'>Terms derived from the PIE root *weh₂t-</a>
  • *wéh₂t-os
    • Germanic: *wōdaz (“mad, furious, possessed”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Indo-Iranian: *wáHtas
      • Indo-Aryan: *wáHtas
        • Sanskrit: वात (vā́ta, “attacked, assailed, injured, hurt”) [2]
  • *weh₂t-is
    • Celtic: *wātis (see there for further descendants)
    • Italic:
  • *weh₂t-us
    • Germanic: *wōduz
      • Old Norse: óðr (“poetry”)
  • *wéh₂t-eh₂
    • Germanic: *wōþō
      • Old English: wōþ (“song”)
  • *woh₂t-o-[3]
    • (perhaps) Armenian:
  • Unsorted formations:
    • Germanic: *Wōdanaz (see there for further descendants)
    • Germanic: *wōdaz (“rage, fury”)

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
  2. Monier Williams (1899), “Proto-Indo-European/weh₂t-”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 0934.
  3. Olsen, Birgit Anette (1999) The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation: with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritage (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs; 119), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 774
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