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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʷriHwéh₂
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Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
Possible[1], from *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour, eat”).[1][2]
Noun
*gʷrih₁wéh₂ or *gʷrih₃wéh₂ f[1][3]
- mane, nape
- neck, throat
- estuary, mouth of an inlet
Inflection
| Thematic in *-eh₂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *gʷriHwéh₂ | ||
| genitive | *gʷriHwéh₂s | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *gʷriHwéh₂ | *gʷriHwéh₂h₁(e) | *gʷriHwéh₂es |
| vocative | *gʷriHwéh₂ | *gʷriHwéh₂h₁(e) | *gʷriHwéh₂es |
| accusative | *gʷriHwā́m | *gʷriHwéh₂h₁(e) | *gʷriHwéh₂m̥s |
| genitive | *gʷriHwéh₂s | *? | *gʷriHwéh₂oHom |
| ablative | *gʷriHwéh₂s | *? | *gʷriHwéh₂mos |
| dative | *gʷriHwéh₂ey | *? | *gʷriHwéh₂mos |
| locative | *gʷriHwéh₂, *gʷriHwéh₂i | *? | *gʷriHwéh₂su |
| instrumental | *gʷriHwéh₂h₁ | *? | *gʷriHwéh₂bʰi |
Descendants
- Balto-Slavic: *grī́ˀwāˀ (see there for further descendants), with accent retraction due to Hirt's law.
- Indo-Iranian: *griHwáH (see there for further descendants)
References
- Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006), “*gʷrih₃w-eha-”, in The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 174, 176
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “*gʷer-”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
- Jasanoff, Jay (2017) The Prehistory of the Balto-Slavic Accent (Brill's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics; 17), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 105-108: “*gu̯riH-u̯éh₂”