Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/síh₂

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

Derived from *só (masculine demonstrative pronoun) + *-ih₂,[1] or from *sí- (allomorph of *só) + *-h₂;[2] *síh₂ then displaced the original female version *séh₂ at least in pre-Celtic.

Pronoun

*síh₂[2]

  1. she

Derived terms

  • *sih₂m̥ (accusative)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *siHm
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *siHm
      • Proto-Iranian: *hiHm
        • Avestan: 𐬵𐬍𐬨 (hīm)
        • Old Persian: [Term?] (/⁠-šim⁠/)

Descendants

  • Proto-Celtic: *sī
    • Proto-Brythonic: *hi
      • Breton: hi
      • Cornish: hi
      • Welsh: hi
    • Old Irish: sí
  • Proto-Germanic: *sī
    • Proto-West Germanic: *sī (see there for further descendants)
    • Gothic: 𐍃𐌹 (si)
  • Proto-Hellenic:
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
    • Proto-Iranian:
      • Old Avestan: 𐬵𐬍 (hī)

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “sī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 335: “*s- + -ih₂”
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dunkel, George E. (2014) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 741
  3. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 571
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