Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wisós

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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wisós

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

Noun

*wisós m

1. poison
2. slime

Descendants

• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *wišás (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Hellenic: *wihós
  • Ancient Greek: ἰός (iós /iós/)
• Proto-Italic: *weizos (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Tocharian: *wä́së[1] (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1134

References

1. Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “wase*”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 634