Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/preḱ-

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

    Root

    *preḱ-[1][2][3]

    1. to ask

    Derived terms

    Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *preḱ- (30 c, 0 e)
    • *pr̥(ḱ)-sḱé-ti (sḱe-present)[1]
    • *prḗḱ-s-t ~ *préḱ-s-n̥t (s-aorist)
      • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
        • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
        • Proto-Iranian:
          • Avestan: 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬍 (frašī, 1sg.inj.mid.)
      • Proto-Tocharian:
        • Tocharian A: prakäs
        • Tocharian B: preksa
    • *proḱ-éye-ti (causative)[4][5]
      • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *práśīˀtei (see there for further descendants)
    • *préḱ-s[6][7]
      • Celtic:
        • Brythonic:
      • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *prā́ćš
        • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *prā́ṭṣ
          • Sanskrit: प्राश् (prā́ś)
        • Proto-Iranian: *prā́š
      • Proto-Italic: *preks
    • *proḱ-ó-s (with agentive *-ós)
    • Unsorted formations:
      • Armenian:
      • Balto-Slavic:
        • Lithuanian: pir̃šti (to arrange a marriage)
      • Proto-Germanic: *frehnaną (see there for further descendants)
      • Indo-Iranian:
        • Iranian:
          • Northern Kurdish: pirs (question), pirsîn (to ask)
          • Old Persian: √fraθ/pars > parsa-
            • Middle Persian: pwrs (purs-), pwrsytn' (pursīdan)
      • Italic:
        • >? Latin: percontor (see there for further descendants)
      • Tocharian:

    References

    1. 1.0 1.1 Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
    2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
    3. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 490-491
    4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*prosìti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 421
    5. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “prašyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 360-370
    6. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “prex, -cis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488
    7. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “Proto-Indo-European/preḱ-”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 709, column 2.