Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂ōwyóm
Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
Likely a vṛddhi derivative of *h₂éwis (“bird”),[1][2][3] though some scholars have argued this as morphologically unlikely.[4]
Noun
*h₂ōwyóm n (non-ablauting)[5][1][2][3]
Inflection
| Thematic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *h₂ōwyóm | ||
| genitive | *h₂ōwyósyo | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *h₂ōwyóm | *h₂ōwyóy(h₁) | *h₂ōwyéh₂ |
| vocative | *h₂ōwyóm | *h₂ōwyóy(h₁) | *h₂ōwyéh₂ |
| accusative | *h₂ōwyóm | *h₂ōwyóy(h₁) | *h₂ōwyéh₂ |
| genitive | *h₂ōwyósyo | *? | *h₂ōwyóHom |
| ablative | *h₂ōwyéad | *? | *h₂ōwyómos, *h₂ōwyóbʰos |
| dative | *h₂ōwyóey | *? | *h₂ōwyómos, *h₂ōwyóbʰos |
| locative | *h₂ōwyéy, *h₂ōwyóy | *? | *h₂ōwyóysu |
| instrumental | *h₂ōwyóh₁ | *? | *h₂ōwyṓys |
Alternative reconstructions
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian:
- Proto-Armenian:
- >? Old Armenian: ձու (ju) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *ṓja
- Proto-Slavic: *ȃje (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *āwyom (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *ajją (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *ōyyón (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hāwyám
- Proto-Iranian: *Hāwyám (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *ōwom
- Latin: ōvum (see there for further descendants)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ōvum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Zair, Nicholas (2011), “PIE ‘bird’ and ‘egg’ after Schindler”, in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, volume 65, pages 287–310
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ajja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 17
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Darms, Georges (1978), Schwäher und Schwager, Hahn und Huhn : Die Vr̥ddhi-Ableitung im Germanischen [Schwäher and Schwager, Hahn and Huhn: The Vr̥ddhi Derivation in Germanic] (in German), Munich: R. Kitzinger, pages 322, 509
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “ō(u̯)i̯-om”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 783–784
- ^ Schindler, Jochem (1969), “Die idg. Wörter für “Vogel” und “Ei” [The [Indo-European] words for ‘bird’ and ‘egg’]”, in Die Sprache (in German), volume 15, pages 144–167
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “ve ~ vo”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 497
Further reading
- Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 53, 300
- Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143: “*hₐō(w)i-om ‘egg’”