Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/senh₂-
Proto-Indo-European
Root
- to obtain
Derived terms
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *senh₂- (1 c, 0 e)
- *sénh₂-t ~ *sn̥h₂-ént (athematic root aorist)[1]
- Proto-Anatolian:
- Hittite: [Term?] (/sanahzi/, “to seek”)
- Proto-Hellenic:
- Ancient Greek: ἤνεσα (ḗnesa)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *HásanHat (thematized)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan:
- Sanskrit: असनत् (ásanat)
- Proto-Iranian:
- Old Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬁𐬝 (hanāt̰, 3sg.aor.subj.)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan:
- Proto-Anatolian:
- *sn̥-né-h₂-ti ~ *sn̥-n-h₂-énti (athematic root aorist)[1]
- *se-sónh₂-e ~ *se-sn̥h₂-ḗr (reduplicated perfect)[1]
- *sn̥h₂-tó-s
- Unsorted formations
- >? Proto-Germanic: *sinnaną (or from *sent- (“to feel”)) (see there for further descendants)
- Sanskrit: सनितृ (sánitṛ, “winner”), सनित्र (sanítra, “gift”), गोषणि (goṣáṇi, “winning cows”)
Descendants
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *sanH-
- Proto-Indo-Aryan:
- Sanskrit: सन् (san)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*senh₂- 'erlangen, erwischen'”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 532-533
- ^ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “sani”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 441
- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “unim”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 636-637
Further reading
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 906