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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/skey-
Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
Perhaps from a reanalysis of *sek- (“to cut”) + *-éy-.
Root
*skey-
- to split, to dissect
Alternative reconstructions
- *skēy-, *skeh₁-y-
Derived terms
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skey-
- *skey-(e)-ti (root present)
- Balto-Slavic:
- Latgalian: škeit' (“to pluck”)
- Proto-Celtic: *skeyeti (“to vomit”)
- Old Irish: sceïd
- Balto-Slavic:
- *ski-yé-ti (yé-present)
- Proto-Italic: *skijō (“to distinguish, discern”)
- Latin: sciō (“to know”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *skijō (“to distinguish, discern”)
- *skey-to-s
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Latgalian: škīts
- Latvian: šķiets
- Lithuanian: skietas
- Proto-Slavic: *ščítъ (“shield”)[1] (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *skētos (“shield, cover”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- *skey-t-ó-m (or *skeyt-ó-m)
- Proto-Germanic: *skīdą (“stick”) (see there for further descendants)
- *skoy-to-m (or *skoyt-o-m)
- Proto-Italic: *skoitom
- >? Latin: scūtum (“shield”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *skoitom
- Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Albanian: *skeitsā
- Albanian: shqisë
- Proto-Celtic: *skiyenā (“knife”)
- Old Irish: scían
- Middle Irish: scian
- Irish: scian
- Manx: skynn
- Scottish Gaelic: sgian
- → Middle English: skene, sceyne
- English: skean, skene, skeyn
- → Old Welsh: *scien
- Middle Welsh: ysgien
- Welsh: ysgien
- Middle Welsh: ysgien
- Middle Irish: scian
- Old Irish: scían
- Proto-Albanian: *skeitsā
Extensions
- *skey-d-
- *skey-bʰ-, *skey-p-, *skey-b-?
- ⇒
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Latvian: škibît (“to cut, lop (off)”)
- Lithuanian: skiẽbti (“to rip up”)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- ⇒ *skibʰ-on- or *skip-ón-
- ⇒ Proto-Germanic: *skībǭ (“slice, thin layer”)
- ⇒ *skib-o-m?
- >? Proto-Germanic: *skipą (“hollow(ed-out) object; ship”) (see there for further descendants)
- ⇒
- *skey-t-
- ⇒ *skóyt-e-ti (o-grade present)
- Proto-Germanic: *skaiþaną, *skaidaną (see there for further descendants)
- ⇒ *skóyt-e-ti (o-grade present)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*ščítъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 486
- Pokorny, 2463 Pages, 919-922
- Gerhard Koebler
- Altiranisches Wörterbuch by Christian Bartholomae