Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/swépnos
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This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From *swep- (“to sleep”) + *-nós.
Noun
[edit]*swépnos m (non-ablauting)[1]
Inflection
[edit]| Thematic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *swépnos | ||
| genitive | *swépnosyo | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *swépnos | — | — |
| vocative | *swépne | — | — |
| accusative | *swépnom | — | — |
| genitive | *swépnosyo | — | — |
| ablative | *swépnead | — | — |
| dative | *swépnoey | — | — |
| locative | *swépney, *swépnoy | — | — |
| instrumental | *swépnoh₁ | — | — |
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *swápnas (< *swópnos) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *swefnaz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *swápnas (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *swepnos
- Proto-Tocharian: *ṣw’äpäne, *ṣw’äpne[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “somnus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 573
- ^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ṣpane”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 730