Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pérkus
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This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]*pérkus m[1]
Inflection
[edit]| Athematic, proterokinetic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *pérkus | ||
| genitive | *pr̥kʷéws | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *pérkus | *pérkuh₁(e) | *pérkewes |
| vocative | *pérku | *pérkuh₁(e) | *pérkewes |
| accusative | *pérkum | *pérkuh₁(e) | *pérkums |
| genitive | *pr̥kʷéws | *? | *pr̥kʷéwoHom |
| ablative | *pr̥kʷéws | *? | *pr̥kʷúmos, *pr̥kʷúbʰos |
| dative | *pr̥kʷéwey | *? | *pr̥kʷúmos, *pr̥kʷúbʰos |
| locative | *pr̥kʷéw, *pr̥kʷéwi | *? | *pr̥kʷúsu |
| instrumental | *pr̥kʷúh₁ | *? | *pr̥kʷúmis, *pr̥kʷúbʰis |
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Celtic: *kʷerkʷus
- ⇒ Proto-Celtic: *kʷerkʷernos (“oak people”)[2]
- Gallaecian:
- → Latin: Querquernī (ethnonym)
- Venetic:
- → Latin: Quarquenī (ethnonym)
- Gallaecian:
- ⇒ Proto-Celtic: *kʷerxtos (“bush”)[3]
- ⇒ Proto-Celtic: *kʷerkʷernos (“oak people”)[2]
- Proto-Germanic: *ferhuz (“body; life; oak-tree”) (see there for further descendants)
- ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *ferhwą (“life, essence”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *kʷerkʷus[4]
- Latin: quercus (“oak-tree”) (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- ^ 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 160
- ^ Prósper, Blanca María (2014) “Sifting the evidence: New interpretations on Celtic and Non-Celtic personal names of western Hispania in the light of phonetics, composition and suffixation”, in García Alonso, Juan Luis, editor, Continental Celtic Word Formation: The Onomastic Data[1], Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷerxt-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 178
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “quercus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 506