Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/likēt

This Proto-Italic 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-Italic

Etymology

Unknown, though links to Lithuanian reikė́ti (to need) have been proposed.[1] The Proto-Indo-European root *leyk- could be reconstructed, although its existence is dubious.[2][3]

Verb

*likēt[4][5]

  1. to be available, to have the value of, to be for sale

Conjugation

Inflection of *likēt (second conjugation stative)
Present *likēō
Perfect
Aorist
Past participle
Present indicative Active Passive
1st sing. *likēō *likēōr
2nd sing. *likēs *likēzo
3rd sing. *likēt *likētor
1st plur. *likēmos *likēmor
2nd plur. *likētes *likēm(e?)n(ai?)
3rd plur. *likēnt *likēntor
Present subjunctive Active Passive
1st sing. *likēām *likēār
2nd sing. *likēās *likēāzo
3rd sing. *likēād *likēātor
1st plur. *likēāmos *likēāmor
2nd plur. *likēātes *likēām(e?)n(ai?)
3rd plur. *likēānd *likēāntor
Perfect indicative Active
1st sing.
2nd sing.
3rd sing.
1st plur.
2nd plur.
3rd plur.
Aorist indicative Active
1st sing.
2nd sing.
3rd sing.
1st plur.
2nd plur.
3rd plur.
Present imperative Active Passive
2nd sing. *likē *likēzo
2nd plur. *likēte
Future imperative Active
2nd + 3rd sing. *likētōd
Participles Present Past
*likēnts
Verbal nouns tu-derivative s-derivative
*liketum *likēzi

Descendants

  • Latin: licet (to be permitted), liceō (to be for sale), liceor (to bid at an auction)
  • Oscan: 𐌋𐌝𐌊𐌝𐌕𐌖𐌃 (líkítud), licitud (3sg. impv.) (perhaps borrowed or calqued from Latin)[6]
  • >? Oscan: λεικειτ (leikeit, 3sg. pres.)

References

  1. ^ reikėti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 406
  3. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 669
  4. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 340
  5. ^ Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2017) “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter
  6. ^ Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary