Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/plúsis

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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

Reconstruction

The original PIE form was distorted by folk etymologies in various daughters, though most of them point to something like *plúsis, with the voiceless initial stop, and the root sequence of *-lu-. Other variant root forms are *plows- *pusl-, *psul- or *bʰlus-.

Noun

*plúsis or *plows- or *pusl- or *psul- or *bʰlus-

flea

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Albanian: plesht < *plews-
Armenian: < *pluso-
- Old Armenian: լու (lu)
  - Armenian: լու (lu)
Balto-Slavic: *blúšāˀ < *b(ʰ)lus-eh₂ (see there for further descendants)
Germanic: *flauhaz < *plówkos (see there for further descendants)
Hellenic:
- Ancient Greek: ψύλλα (psúlla) < *plusy(e)h₂ undergoing metathesis
  - Modern Greek: ψύλλος (psýllos)
Indo-Iranian: *plúšiš
- Indo-Aryan: *plúṣiṣ
  - Sanskrit: प्लुषि (plúṣi)
- Iranian: *frušiš
  - Pashto: ورږه‎ (vraža)
  - Yidgha: frīgo‎
Italic:
- Latin: pūlex < *plusek-
  - Catalan: puça
  - ⇒ Esperanto: pulo
  - French: puce
  - Galician: pulga
  - Italian: pulce
  - Portuguese: pulga
  - Romanian: purice
  - Spanish: pulga

References

Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q., editors (1997) Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 206