Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/peth₂-

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

*pet-[1]

Etymology

Existing in variations, *pet-, *peth₁-, *peth₂-.[2]

Root

*peth₂-

to spread out
to fly (through the sense ‘spread one’s wings’)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peth₂-

*péth₂-e-ti (thematic root present)
*pe-póth₂-e (stative)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *papā́ta
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *papā́ta
    - Sanskrit: पपात (papā́ta)
*pí-pth₂-e-ti (reduplicated thematic present)
- Proto-Hellenic: *píptō
  - Ancient Greek: πίπτω (píptō), πίσσω (píssō)
    - Greek: πέφτω (péfto)
*pot(h₂)-éye-ti[3]
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *pāt(H)áyati
  - Proto-Iranian: *pāt(H)áyati
    - Sanskrit: पातयति (pātáyati, “to cause to fly, throw, send; to cause to fall, fell; to spill, pour”)
*péth₂-r̥ (“feather, wing”) (see there for further descendants)
*péth₂-lom (“leaf”)
- Proto-Hellenic: *pétalon
  - Ancient Greek: πέτᾰλον (pétalon) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *feþlą (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *pátram
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *pátram
    - Sanskrit: पत्र (pátra, “leaf”), पत्त्र (pattra) (see there for further descendants)
  - Proto-Iranian: *pátram
    - Avestan: 𐬞𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬙𐬀‎ (patar^əta, “winged”)
Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Celtic: *ɸanssā
  - Old Irish: éis
    - Irish: éis
- Proto-Germanic: *faþmaz (see there for further descendants)
- Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: πετάννῡμι (petánnūmi), πέτασος (pétasos), πέτηλος (pétēlos), πίτνημι (pítnēmi), ποταμός (potamós), πότμος (pótmos), πετηνός (petēnós), πτῶμα (ptôma), πτῆσις (ptêsis), πτῶσις (ptôsis), πτωτικός (ptōtikós), πτωτός (ptōtós), πτίλον (ptílon), πατάνη (patánē)
- Italic:
  - Proto-Italic: *patnō
  - Latin: pandō (see there for further descendants)
  - Latin: pateō (see there for further descendants)
  - Latin: patera (see there for further descendants)
  - Latin: passus (“step”) (see there for further descendants)
  - Latin: impetus, praepes, perpetuus (see there for further descendants)
  - ⇒? Latin: propitius (see there for further descendants)
  - Latin: petulans, petulcus (see there for further descendants)

References

Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 181
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 122a.note1
Kulikov, Leonid (2014), “Causative Formation”, in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics‎, volume 1, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 275

[IEW-1] Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 181

[2] Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 122a.note1

[3] Kulikov, Leonid (2014), “Causative Formation”, in Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics‎, volume 1, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 275