Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʰreh₁-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*ǵʰreh₁-^[1]

Root

*gʰreh₁-^[2]

to grow (of plants?)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰreh₁- (8 c, 0 e)

*gʰroh₁-(y)e-ti (o-grade present)
- Proto-Germanic: *grōaną (see there for further descendants)
*gʰroh₁-ni-s
- Proto-Germanic: *grōniz (see there for further descendants)
*gʰreh₁-no-s
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *grēˀnas
  - Proto-Slavic: *grěnъ (see there for further descendants)
*gʰreh₁-wo-
- Proto-Germanic: *grēwaz (see there for further descendants)
*gʰr̥h₁-wo-
- Proto-Italic:
  - Latin: rāvus, grāvastellus (or from *ǵerh₂-?) (see there for further descendants)
*gʰréh₁-mn̥ ~ *gʰr̥h₁-mén-s or perhaps *gʰréh₁-s-mn̥ ~ *gʰr̥h₁-s-mén-s
- Proto-Italic: *grāmen or *grazmen
  - Latin: grāmen
*gʰreh₁-tó-s
- Proto-Germanic: *grēdaz
  - Old English: grǣd
Unsorted formations:
- Anatolian:
  - Hittite: [script needed] (kariyant-, “grass”)
- Proto-Iranian:
  - Persian: روییدن (ru'idan, “to grow”)
- Proto-Germanic: *grasą (cannot be directly from *gʰr̥h₁-s-)
- Proto-Germanic: *grōsō
  - Proto-West Germanic: *grōsu
    - Old Saxon: *grōsa
      - Middle Low German: grôse
    - Old Dutch: *gruosa
      - Middle Dutch: groese
    - Old High German: *gruosa
      - Middle High German: gruose
  - → Proto-Finnic: *rooho (“grass”) (see there for further descendants)
- Latin: herba

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[2] Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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