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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ǵéwstus
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Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
From *ǵews- (“to try, to taste”) + *-tus.
Noun
*ǵéwstus m[1]
- taste
Inflection
| Athematic, proterokinetic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *ǵéwstus | ||
| genitive | *ǵustéws | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *ǵéwstus | *ǵéwstuh₁(e) | *ǵéwstewes |
| vocative | *ǵéwstu | *ǵéwstuh₁(e) | *ǵéwstewes |
| accusative | *ǵéwstum | *ǵéwstuh₁(e) | *ǵéwstums |
| genitive | *ǵustéws | *? | *ǵustéwoHom |
| ablative | *ǵustéws | *? | *ǵustúmos |
| dative | *ǵustéwey | *? | *ǵustúmos |
| locative | *ǵustéw, *ǵustéwi | *? | *ǵustúsu |
| instrumental | *ǵustúh₁ | *? | *ǵustúmis |
Descendants
- Proto-Celtic: *gustus
- Welsh: gwst
- Old Irish: guss, (Fer-gus, Oín-gus)
- Irish: gus
- Gaulish: gussou
- Proto-Germanic: *kustuz[2] (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ȷ́úštuš
- Proto-Iranian: *júštuš
- Northern Kurdish: çêj (“taste”)
- Proto-Iranian: *júštuš
- Proto-Italic: *gustus[3] (see there for further descendants)
References
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kustu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 313
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “gustus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 276