Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/reh₁mós

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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/reh₁mós

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

Adjective

*reh₁mós

1. dark
2. dirty

Derived terms

• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *raHmás
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
    • Sanskrit: राम (rāmá-) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Hellenic:
  • Ancient Greek: ἐρῆμος (erêmos)

Further reading

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 853
• 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 121