Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
Appears to be suffixed/extended from the root *h₂eh₁- as found in Palaic [script needed] (hāri), [script needed] (hānta, “to heat up”, intransitive), Proto-Celtic *ā-tis (“furnace, oven”) and PIE *h₂éh₁-tēr (“fire”);[6][7] see also *h₂eh₃- (“to burn, be hot”). Alternatively from *h₂ed-s- with dissimilation; see reconstruction notes.
Reconstruction
The long-vowel forms reflecting *ās- < *HaHs- have been explained as taken from a reduplicated perfect *h₂e-h₂s-, thus *h₂es- could be original, nicely explaining the short vowels.[3][4] However, the morphological motivation for deriving nouns from such a stem *h₂e-h₂s- is unclear (but cf. *kʷé-kʷl-os, *bʰé-bʰr-us).
On the other hand, Kloekhorst argues that Hittite 𒄩𒀀𒀸 (ḫāš, “ash”), 𒄩𒀸𒊭𒀀𒀸 (ḫāššāš, “fireplace, hearth”) (and therefore also Old Latin āsa (“altar”) and cognates) can only reflect *h₂eh₁s-.[8][9] Beekes interprets this *h₂eh₁s- as dissimilated regularly from *h₂ed-s- in pre-PIE, from the root *h₂ed- as found in Hittite 𒄩𒀀𒋾 (ḫāti).[10] To this root, he and Puhvel[11] add Ancient Greek ἄζω (ázō), and Kroonen adds Proto-Germanic *azgǭ.[12]
Derived terms
- *h₂eHs-eh₁-(ye)- (stative)[1]
- *h₂éH-mr̥ (probably)
- *h₂éHs-s (root noun)[8]
- Proto-Anatolian:
- Hittite: 𒄩𒀀𒀸 c (ḫāšš-, “ash(es); dust; soap”)
- Proto-Anatolian:
- *h₂eHs-h₂- (“hearth, fireplace”)[1]
- *h₂s-tḗr (“star”)
- Unsorted formations:
- Germanic:
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *HáHsas
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *HáHsas
- Sanskrit: आस (ā́sa, “ashes, dust”)
- Proto-Iranian: *HáHhah
- Ormuri: [script needed] (yānak, “ash”) < *ās-naka-
- Persian: آهک (âhak, “lime”)
- Proto-Indo-Aryan: *HáHsas
- Tocharian:
- Tocharian A: asatär (“dries up”)
- Tocharian B: osotär (“dries up”)
- Proto-Tocharian: *āstäre (“pure”) (possibly)[13]
- Proto-Tocharian: *ās-[14]
- enlarged with a dental
- Armenian:
- Old Armenian: հաստեայ (hasteay, “kind of pastry”) (possibly)
- Old Armenian: ոստին (ostin, “dry”) (possibly)
- Balto-Slavic:
- Czech: ozditi (“to dry malt”)
- Old Polish: ozd (“dry malt”)
- Hellenic:
- Indo-Iranian:
- Iranian:
- Khotanese: [script needed] (astaucä, “dry land”)
- → Old Armenian: աստուճ (astuč, “dry (of bread)”)
- Iranian:
- Proto-Italic: *assos (“dried, roasted”)
- Latin: assus (“roasted, baked”)
- Armenian:
- enlarged with a velar
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 49, 53, 58f
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 257–258
- Lubotsky A. M. (1985) “The PIE word for ‘dry’”, in ZVS, volume 98, pages 1–10
- 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, pages 53–54
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 68–69
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*h₂eh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 257
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*āti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 45
- Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “ḫāšš-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 318–319: “PIE *h₂éh₁s-s, *h₂éh₁s-m, h₂h₁s-ós”
- Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) “ḫāššā-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 322–323
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἄζω 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 26–27
- Puhvel, Jaan (1991) Hittite Etymological Dictionary (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 5), volume 3, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 274f
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*askōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 38
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “astare”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 36-37
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ās-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 63
- Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 371f, 376f
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 7, 44, 118f
- Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 170b