Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁ógʷʰis

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

Etymology

Uncertain.

Reconstruction

Beekes reconstructs *h₃égʷʰis because “the absence of reflexes of Brugmann's Law points to IE e-vocalism”.

EIEC claims that the original form was acrostatic ablauting *h₁ógʷʰis, genitive *h₁égʷʰis.

Noun

*h₁ógʷʰis f

snake
a mythic serpent or dragon that is slain by a great hero in Indo-European mythology^[1]

Usage notes

*h₂éngʷʰis (“snake”) has replaced this word in most of the Western and Central Indo-European dialects.

Inflection

Athematic, acrostatic
	singular
nominative	*h₁ógʷʰis
genitive	*h₁égʷʰis
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*h₁ógʷʰis	*h₁ógʷʰih₁(e)	*h₁ógʷʰeyes
vocative	*h₁ógʷʰi	*h₁ógʷʰih₁(e)	*h₁ógʷʰeyes
accusative	*h₁ógʷʰim	*h₁ógʷʰih₁(e)	*h₁ógʷʰims
genitive	*h₁égʷʰis	*?	*h₁égʷʰyoHom
ablative	*h₁égʷʰis	*?	h₁égʷʰimos, h₁égʷʰibʰos
dative	*h₁égʷʰyey	*?	h₁égʷʰimos, h₁égʷʰibʰos
locative	*h₁égʷʰi	*?	*h₁égʷʰisu
instrumental	*h₁égʷʰih₁	*?	h₁égʷʰimis, h₁égʷʰibʰis

Synonyms

Descendants

Armenian:
- >? Old Armenian: իժ (iž)
Proto-Germanic: *agwiz
- ⇒? Proto-Germanic: *egalaz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-West Germanic: *agi
  - ⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *agiþahsijā (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Hellenic: *ókʷʰis (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Háǰʰiš (see there for further descendants)
>? Proto-Tocharian: *ewk (< *ekw)^[2]
- Tocharian B: auk

References

^ Watkins, Calvert (1995) How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “¹auk”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 135–136

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1135
Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 529

[1] Watkins, Calvert (1995) How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

[2] Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “¹auk”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 135–136

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