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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/praiteros

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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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From *prai (before) +‎ *-teros (contrastive adjective suffix).

Adjective

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*praiteros[1]

  1. in front

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Latin: praeter
  • Umbrian: pretra (first, acc. pl. f.)

References

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  1. ^ Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2017) “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, and Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter