Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁órǵʰis

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 reconstructions

*h₄órǵʰis
*h₃érǵʰis (the h-less Hittite form would arise in the zero-grade and get levelled by the ablaut)

Noun

*h₁órǵʰis

testicle

Inflection

Athematic, proterokinetic
	singular
nominative	*h₁órǵʰis
genitive	*h₁r̥ǵʰéys
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*h₁órǵʰis	*h₁órǵʰih₁(e)	*h₁órǵʰeyes
vocative	*h₁órǵʰi	*h₁órǵʰih₁(e)	*h₁órǵʰeyes
accusative	*h₁órǵʰim	*h₁órǵʰih₁(e)	*h₁órǵʰims
genitive	*h₁r̥ǵʰéys	*?	*h₁r̥ǵʰéyoHom
ablative	*h₁r̥ǵʰéys	*?	h₁r̥ǵʰímos, h₁r̥ǵʰíbʰos
dative	*h₁r̥ǵʰéyey	*?	h₁r̥ǵʰímos, h₁r̥ǵʰíbʰos
locative	h₁r̥ǵʰéy, h₁r̥ǵʰḗy	*?	*h₁r̥ǵʰísu
instrumental	*h₁r̥ǵʰíh₁	*?	h₁r̥ǵʰímis, h₁r̥ǵʰíbʰis

Descendants

Proto-Albanian: *ardzai
- Albanian: herdhe
Proto-Anatolian:
- Hittite: [script needed] (arki-)
Proto-Armenian:
- Old Armenian: որձիք (orjikʻ)
Proto-Balto-Slavic: *arź-
- Proto-Slavic: *orzъ (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Celtic: *orgyā
- Middle Irish: uirge
  - Irish: úirí
Proto-Hellenic: *órkʰis
- Ancient Greek: ὄρχις (órkhis) (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Indo-Iranian:
- Proto-Iranian:
  - Avestan: 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬍 (ər^əzī)

References

Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 184