Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/likēt
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
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
- ^ “reikėti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ 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
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 669
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary