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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/wōks

This Proto-Italic 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-Italic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), an o-grade root noun of *wekʷ- (“to speak”).

Noun

*wōks f [1]

  1. voice

Declension
consonant stemDeclension of *wōks (consonant stem)
singular plural
nominative *wōks *wōkes
vocative *wōks *wōkes
accusative *wōkem *wōkens
genitive *wōkes, -os *wōkom
dative *wōkei *wōkəβos
ablative *wōki? -e? *wōkəβos
locative *wōki? -e? *wōkəβos

Descendants
  • Latin: vōx, vocō (either a denominative from the oblique stem *wokʷ- or from an intermediate derivative *wokʷ-ā < *wokʷ-eh₂)
  • Umbrian: [script needed] (suboco, “invocation”) (< *sub-wok-(o-)); [script needed] (subocauu), [script needed] (subocau, “I invoke”) (< *sub-wok-ā-je-)

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
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