Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/endo

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

Alternative forms

• *endo- (combining)

Alternative reconstructions

• *əndo

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁(e)ndó (“inside”).

Preposition

*endo

1. in
2. on, onto
3. to

Adverb

*endo

1. within, inside
2. thereupon

Descendants

• Old Latin: endo, indu, indu-, indi-
  • Latin: indu, indu-, indi-

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “endo, indu(-), indi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189: “PIt. *(e)ndo ‘in, into’”