Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂nḗr
Appearance
Proto-Indo-European
[edit]Noun
[edit]*h₂nḗr m[1]
Inflection
[edit]Athematic, hysterokinetic | |||
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singular | |||
nominative | *h₂nḗr | ||
genitive | *h₂n̥rés | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative | *h₂nḗr | *h₂nérh₁(e) | *h₂néres |
vocative | *h₂nér | *h₂nérh₁(e) | *h₂néres |
accusative | *h₂nérm̥ | *h₂nérh₁(e) | *h₂nérm̥s |
genitive | *h₂n̥rés | *? | *h₂n̥róHom |
ablative | *h₂n̥rés | *? | *h₂nr̥mós, *h₂nr̥bʰós |
dative | *h₂n̥réy | *? | *h₂nr̥mós, *h₂nr̥bʰós |
locative | *h₂nér, *h₂néri | *? | *h₂nr̥sú |
instrumental | *h₂n̥réh₁ | *? | *h₂nr̥mís, *h₂nr̥bʰís |
- Note: an alternative form, *éh₂nōr, and feminine derivation, *h₂nerih₂, are seen in many Ancient Greek compounds (i.e. -ήνωρ and -άνειρα), probably reanalysed from archaic compounds.
Derived terms
[edit]- *h₂ner-to- (“virile, strong”)
- Proto-Celtic: *nertom (“strength”) (see there for further descendants)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Albanian: *nera (see there for further descendants)
- Anatolian:
- Armenian: *aynr < *anir
- Old Armenian: այր (ayr); առն (aṙn, gen.sg.) < *h₂n̥rós
- Old Armenian: (?) այրի (ayri, “husbandless”) < *n̥-Hnēr-yeh₂
- (perhaps, though Derksen does not support this) Balto-Slavic:
- Proto-Celtic: *neros, with thematicized full-grade leveled from *h₂nérm̥ (accusative singular)
- Proto-Hellenic: *anḗr (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hnā́ (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *nēr (see there for further descendants)
- Phrygian: αναρ (anar)
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 366