Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/gʷraus
Proto-Italic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).
Adjective
edit*gʷraus[1]
Reconstruction notes
edit- The fact that Latin shows enlargement of the u-stem into an i-stem while Oscan into an o-stem shows that such shift post-dated the split of Proto-Italic, which must have mantained u-stem adjectives.[1]
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gravis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 272