Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dʰewbʰ-

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

Alternative forms

*dʰewb-

Root

*dʰewbʰ-

(uncertain) hazy, unclear, dark
deep

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰewb- (24 c, 0 e)

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰewbʰ- (32 c, 0 e)

*dʰewbʰ-é-ti
- Proto-Slavic: *ďubati (see there for further descendants)
*dʰowbʰ-éye-ti (causative)
- Proto-Germanic: *daupijaną (see there for further descendants)
*dʰéwbʰ-et-o-s
- Proto-Albanian: *deubeta
  - Arbëresh Albanian: dejët, deejt, dejt (“sea”)
    - Gheg Albanian: dēt (South Gheg)
    - Albanian: det
*dʰewbʰ-nó-s
- Proto-Germanic: *deupaz (see there for further descendants)
*dʰéwbʰ-u-s^[1]
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dubus
  - Latvian: dobs
  - Lithuanian: dubùs
- Proto-Celtic: *dubus (see there for further descendants)
*dʰubʰ-nó-s
*dʰub⁽ʰ⁾-ó-s
- *budʰ-ó-s (metathesized)
  - Proto-Hellenic: *butʰós (or *tʰubós, if the metathesis happened later)
    - >? Ancient Greek: βυθός (buthós, “depth”), βυσσός (bussós)
      - Greek: βυθός (vythós)
*dʰubʰ-ró-s
*bʰudʰ-mḗn (possibly, with metathesis)
Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Albanian:
  - >? Albanian: dudum (“dumb person, fool”)
- Proto-Albanian: *deupa
  - Albanian: djep
- Proto-Germanic: *dumbaz (“mute, dumb”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic:
  - >? Ancient Greek: τυφλός (tuphlós, “unseen, obscure, hazy, dark; blind”)
    - Greek: τυφλός (tyflós)

References

^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

[Ringe_2006-1] Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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