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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/parezā

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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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Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (sparrow), but these may instead be substrate loans from lost non-Indo-European languages.[1]

Noun

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*parezā f[1]

  1. a bird of ill omen

Inflection

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Declension of *parezā (ā-stem)
singular plural
nominative *parezā *parezās
vocative *pareza *parezās
accusative *parezam *parezans
genitive *parezās *parezāzom
dative *parezāi *parezais
ablative *parezād *parezais
locative *parezāi *parezais

Alternative reconstructions

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Descendants

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  • Latin: parra
  • Umbrian: 𐌐𐌀𐌓𐌚𐌀𐌌 (parfam, acc. sg.), parfa (abl. sg.)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “parra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 447
  2. ^ Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2018) “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter, page 844
  3. ^ Prósper, Blanca María (2020) “The Sabellic accusative plural endings and the outcome of the Indo-European sibilants in Italic”, in Journal of Language Relationship, volume 18, numbers 1-2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 41–79