śihitu

Umbrian

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Alternative forms

  • sihitu

Etymology

Unknown. De Vaan reconstructs a Proto-Italic form *kink-to-, itself possibly related to Proto-Italic *kengō. Further etymology is uncertain, although it may be connected to Proto-Indo-European *kenk-. Possibly cognate with Latin cingō.

Participle

śihitu (perfect passive participle accusative masculine plural) (late Iguvine)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: girded, surrounded, circled

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary
  • Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium‎[1], Baltimore: American Philological Association
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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