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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/arawos

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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

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Etymology

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From *araō (to plough) +‎ *-wos (adjective-forming suffix), ultimately from the root Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (to plough).

Adjective

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*arawos[1][2]

  1. ploughable

Declension

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Reconstruction notes

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  • Reconstructing *arowos (< *h₂erh₃-ew-os) will also yield the descendants but the morphological derivation becomes complex this way.

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “arvum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 56
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 250