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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/kʷettwōr

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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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    Cardinal: *kʷettwōr
    Ordinal: *kʷatwortos
    Prefix: *kʷatru-

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr, neuter plural of *kʷetwóres.

Numeral

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*kʷettwōr n

  1. four

Declension

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This numeral is uninflected in attested Italic languages, but the stem variation *kʷattwor- ~ *kʷVtur- (from the oblique stem) alongside *kʷettwor- (from the nominative stem) imply the former presence of an ablauting paradigm:

Descendants

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