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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mreǵʰ-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Root

*mreǵʰ- (adjectival)[1][2]

  1. short

Derived terms
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mreǵʰ-‎ (8 c, 0 e)
  • *mréǵʰ-us
  • *mréǵʰ-yōs ~ *mr̥ǵʰ-is-és
    • Proto-Hellenic: *brə́ťťōn
      • Ancient Greek: βρᾰ́σσων (brássōn),[3] (later) βραχίων (brakhíōn)
        Aeolic Greek: βρόσσων (bróssōn)
    • Proto-Italic: *breɣʷiōs (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “mreg̑hu-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 750-571
  2. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “mreg̑ʰ-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 497-499
  3. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βραχίων, -ονος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 236
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