Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/aiwotāts

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 *aiwom (“age”) +‎ *-tāts, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-u- (“vital energy”), from *h₂ey-.

Noun

*aiwotāts f

1. age

Declension

Declension of *aiwotāts (consonant stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	*aiwotāts	*aiwotātes
vocative	*aiwotāts	*aiwotātes
accusative	*aiwotātem	*aiwotātens
genitive	*aiwotātes, aiwotātos	*aiwotātom
dative	*aiwotātei	*aiwotātβos
ablative	*aiwotāti? aiwotāte?	*aiwotātβos
locative	*aiwotāti? aiwotāte?	*aiwotātβos

Descendants

• Latin: aevitās (perhaps; or rather restored after Latin aevum)
• Proto-Italic: *aiotāts
  • Latin: aetās (see there for further descendants)
  • Oscan: 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌉𐌔 (aítateís) (gen. sg.), 𐌀𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌖𐌌 (aitatúm) (acc. sg.)
  • Paelignian: aetatu (acc. sg.?), aetate (abl. sg.)

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aevus / aevum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29