Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wreh₁-

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

Reconstruction

A root *reh₁t- (yielding Proto-Slavic *obrěsti) might tentatively be a t-extension *(w)reh₁-t- of this root, according to Pokorny (and, following him, the LIV).^[1]

Root

*wreh₁-^[2]^[3]^[4]

to find, encounter

Alternative reconstructions

*werh₁-^[5]
*wer-^[6]

Derived terms

*wréh₁-t ~ *wr̥h₁-ént? *wé-wr̥h₁-et? (aorist)^[7]
- Proto-Hellenic:
  - Ancient Greek: εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “I find out, acquire”)
*we-wróh₁-e (reduplicated stative)
- Proto-Celtic: *wourū
  - Old Irish: fo·fúair, fo·fríth (preterite forms of fo·gaib)
    - Irish: fuair (preterite of faigh)
    - Scottish Gaelic: fhuair (preterite of faigh)
    - Manx: hooar (preterite of fow)
  - ⇒ Gaulish: tioinuoru (3sg. pret.) (prefixed with tio- and in-)
- Proto-Italic: *wourō
  - Oscan: ϝουρουστ (wouroust, “will have found”)
Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Armenian:
  - >? Old Armenian: գերի (geri, “captive”) (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “u̯er-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1160
^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*u̯reh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 698
^ Zair, Nicholas (2014) “The Future Perfect in Oscan and Umbrian, and the Ō‐ Perfect in South Picene”, in Transactions of the Philological Society, volume 112, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 367–385
^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 681
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*wer-V-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 414
^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “FIND”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 202a
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “εὑρίσκω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 482-483