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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.
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Proto-Indo-European
Noun
*mélit n[1][2]
- honey
- Synonyms: *kn̥h₂ónks, *médʰu
Inflection
| Athematic, amphikinetic
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singular
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| nominative
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*mélit
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| genitive
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*m̥lités
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singular
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dual
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plural
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| nominative
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*mélit
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| vocative
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*mélit
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| accusative
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*mélit
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| genitive
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*m̥lités
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| ablative
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*m̥lités
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| dative
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*m̥litéy
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| locative
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*mélit, *méliti
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| instrumental
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*m̥litéh₁
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Alternative reconstructions
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian: *melita (see there for further descendants)
- Anatolian:
- Hittite: [script needed] (militt-) / [script needed] (malitt-)
- Luwian: [script needed] (mallit-)
- Palaic: [script needed] (mallitanna-)
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: մեղր (mełr)
- Old Armenian: մեղու (mełu, “bee”)
- Proto-Celtic: *meli (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *mili (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *méli
- Mycenaean Greek: 𐀕𐀪 (me-ri)
- Ancient Greek: μέλι (méli)
- Proto-Italic: *meli
- Latin: mel (see there for further descendants)
- →? Proto-Turkic: *bal
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127