Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mregʰ-

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

Root

*mregʰ-[1][2]

brain

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mregʰ-

*mrégʰ-mn̥ ~ *mr̥gʰ-mén-s
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: βρέχμα (brékhma)
*mregʰ-mó-s
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: βρεχμός (brekhmós)
*mrogʰ-no-m
- Proto-Germanic: *bragną (see there for further descendants)
*móst-mr̥gʰ-on- (possibly)[3]
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *mastr̥gʰā́n
  - Sanskrit: मस्तृहन् (mastṛhan)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Lubotsky, Alexander (April 22, 2021), “Indo-Iranian *mastr̥ghan- / *mastr̥ǰhan- ‘Brain, Skull’ and its Etymology”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 25, issue 1, Brill, DOI:10.1163/1573384x-20210107, ISSN 1609-8498, pages 66–73

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

[2] Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

[3] Lubotsky, Alexander (April 22, 2021), “Indo-Iranian *mastr̥ghan- / *mastr̥ǰhan- ‘Brain, Skull’ and its Etymology”, in Iran and the Caucasus, volume 25, issue 1, Brill, DOI:10.1163/1573384x-20210107, ISSN 1609-8498, pages 66–73