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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wek(ʷ)speros
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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
Possibly a compound of the unknown element *we- and the zero-grade of the noun *kʷsep- (“night”). The first element has been connected with Latin vē- in vē-sanus (“mad”), this is rejected by De Vaan. The original meaning could have been "(stretching) towards the night".
Inflection
| Thematic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *wek(ʷ)speros | ||
| genitive | *wek(ʷ)sperosyo | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *wek(ʷ)speros | *wek(ʷ)speroh₁ | *wek(ʷ)speroes |
| vocative | *wek(ʷ)spere | *wek(ʷ)speroh₁ | *wek(ʷ)speroes |
| accusative | *wek(ʷ)sperom | *wek(ʷ)speroh₁ | *wek(ʷ)speroms |
| genitive | *wek(ʷ)sperosyo | *? | *wek(ʷ)sperooHom |
| ablative | *wek(ʷ)speread | *? | *wek(ʷ)speromos |
| dative | *wek(ʷ)speroey | *? | *wek(ʷ)speromos |
| locative | *wek(ʷ)sperey, *wek(ʷ)speroy | *? | *wek(ʷ)speroysu |
| instrumental | *wek(ʷ)speroh₁ | *? | *wek(ʷ)sperōys |
Descendants
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 470f
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., editors (1997) Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 184
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 670
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