Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pléth₂os
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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
editEtymology
editFrom *pleth₂- (“flat”) + *-os.
Noun
edit*pléth₂os n (oblique stem *pléth₂es-)[1][2][3]
Inflection
edit| Athematic, acrostatic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *pléth₂os | ||
| genitive | *pléth₂esos | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *pléth₂os | *pléth₂esih₁ | *pléth₂ōs |
| vocative | *pléth₂os | *pléth₂esih₁ | *pléth₂ōs |
| accusative | *pléth₂os | *pléth₂esih₁ | *pléth₂ōs |
| genitive | *pléth₂esos | *? | *pléth₂esoHom |
| ablative | *pléth₂esos | *? | *pléth₂esmos, *pléth₂esbʰos |
| dative | *pléth₂esey | *? | *pléth₂esmos, *pléth₂esbʰos |
| locative | *pléth₂es, *pléth₂esi | *? | *pléth₂esu |
| instrumental | *pléth₂esh₁ | *? | *pléth₂esmis, *pléth₂esbʰis |
Descendants
edit- Proto-Celtic: *ɸletos (see there for further descendants)
- Hellenic: (the first vowel by analogy with πλᾰτύς (platús))
- Ancient Greek: πλᾰ́τος (plátos)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *prátʰas (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*pleth₂-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 564-566
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pages 83, 133, 539
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πλατύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1205