Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/hortos

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 Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰórtos, from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). De Vaan is suspicious of the o-grade in the Celtic and Greek cognates (*-tós usually demanding the zero grade), believing that the similar o-grade *gʰórdʰos (from *gʰerdʰ- +‎ *-os) must have contaminated it.

Noun

*hortos m

1. enclosure

Inflection

Declension of *hortos (o-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	*hortos	*hortōs, hortoi
vocative	*horte	*hortōs, hortoi
accusative	*hortom	*hortons
genitive	*hortosjo, hortī	*hortom
dative	*hortōi	*hortois
ablative	*hortōd	*hortois
locative	*hortei	*hortois

Descendants

• Latin: hortus (“garden”) (see there for further descendants)
• Oscan: 𐌇𐌞𐌓𐌆 (húrz, “enclosure”)