Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/tripod-

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

From *tri- +‎ *pod-; compare parallelly Proto-Hellenic *trípōts (“three-footed”). The ablaut grade of Proto-Indo-European *pṓds was preserved in this form, differently to the main reflex *pets.

Noun

*tripod-

  1. tripudium, three-step dance

Derived terms

  • *tripod-āō
    • Latin: tripodō
    • ⇒ Umbrian: 𐌀𐌇𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌖𐌛𐌀𐌕𐌖 (ahtrepuřatu), 𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌖𐌓𐌀𐌕𐌖 (atrepuratu), ahatripursatu, atripursatu, atropusatu

Descendants

Reconstruction notes

Reconstructed as *tri-podo- by Michiel de Vaan but as *tripod- by Augusto Ancillotti.

References

  • Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “ahatripursatu”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 2
  • Buck, Carl Darling (1904) A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary
  • Poultney, James Wilson (1959) The Bronze Tables of Iguvium‎[1], Baltimore: American Philological Association
  • 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 462
  • 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
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