Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/aiwotāts

This Proto-Italic 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-Italic

Etymology

From *aiwom (“age”) +‎ *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-u- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-.

Noun

*aiwotāts f

age

Declension

consonant stemDeclension of *aiwotāts (consonant stem)
case	singular	plural
nominative	*aiwotāts	*aiwotātes
vocative	*aiwotāts	*aiwotātes
accusative	*aiwotātem	*aiwotātens
genitive	*aiwotātes, aiwotātos	*aiwotātom
dative	*aiwotātei	*aiwotātəβos
ablative	*aiwotāti? aiwotāte?	*aiwotātəβos
locative	*aiwotāti? aiwotāte?	*aiwotātəβos

Descendants

Latin: aevitās (perhaps; or rather restored after Latin aevum)
⇒ Proto-Italic: [Term?], *aiotāts
- Latin: aetās, ētas
  - Aragonese: edat
  - Aromanian: etã
  - Asturian: edá
  - Catalan: edat
  - Friulian: etât, ete
  - Galician: idade
  - Interlingua: etate
  - Old French: eé, edet, edé; heed, eeit, eié, aié, ahé, ayé, aihé, aé
  - Italian: età, etade, etate
  - Occitan: edat
  - Piedmontese: età
  - Portuguese: idade
  - Romanian: etate
  - Romansch: eted, età
  - Sicilian: itati, ità
  - Spanish: edad
  - Venetian: età
- Oscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌉𐌔 (aitateis) (gen. sg.), 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌖𐌌 (aitatum) (acc. sg.)
- Paelignian: aetatu (acc. sg.?), aetate (abl. sg.)

References

De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “aevus / aevum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29