Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/medos
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”) suffixed with the neuter noun-forming suffix *-os.
Noun
[edit]*medos n
Usage notes
[edit]Two means of accounting for the appearance of Latin modus in the second declension exist.[1]
- The e-grade s-stem noun may have coexisted with an o-grade *-os noun *modos. In Latin, the o-grade noun borne out by modus ousted the s-stem noun, and the vocalism of all surviving derivatives of the s-stem noun was adjusted to match that of modus.
- Schrijver alternatively posits that *medos, an original s-stem would simply turn to *modos via a sound law on the way to Latin, and the second declension would have been acquired secondarily.
Declension
[edit]| consonant stemDeclension of *medos (consonant stem) | ||
|---|---|---|
| case | singular | plural |
| nominative | *medos | *medesā |
| vocative | *medos | *medesā |
| accusative | *medos | *medesā |
| genitive | *medeses, medesos | *medesom |
| dative | *medesei | *medesβos |
| ablative | *medesi? medese? | *medesβos |
| locative | *medesi? medese? | *medesβos |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Latin: modus (either secondarily transferred to the second declension or conflated with a co-existing second-declension noun)
- Umbrian: 𐌌𐌄𐌛𐌔 (meřs), mers
References
[edit]- ^ 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 470