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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/negʷ-

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

*negʷ-[1]

  1. bare, naked

Derived terms
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *negʷ-‎ (9 c, 0 e)
  • *nogʷ-ó-s[2][3][4][5][6]
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *nōˀgás (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *nāgás
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *nāgás
        • Sanskrit: नाग (nāgá, “elephant”, literally “the hairless one”)[7]
    • ⇒ *nogʷ-éh₂-ye-ti
      • Proto-Germanic: *nakwōną (see there for further descendants)
  • *nogʷ-edʰ-o-s[4][5][7]
    • Proto-Italic: *nogʷedos (see there for further descendants)
  • *nogʷ-ónt-[4]
    • Proto-Germanic: *nakwadaz[4] (see there for further descendants)
  • *nogʷ-nó-s[1][7][4][5]
    • ⇒? Proto-Armenian: *tukno-[8]
    • >? Proto-Germanic: *nakʷnaz
    • Proto-Hellenic: *gʷomnós (< *gonʷ-nó-s[4][5])
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *nagnás[9] (see there for further descendants)
  • *negʷ-m-ont-[4]
  • *nogʷ-tó-s[1][4][5][10]
    • Proto-Celtic: *noxtos (“naked”) (see there for further descendants)
  • (possibly) *nókʷt-s (“night”) (< *nógʷt-s, see there for further descendants)
  • (possibly) *negʷ-ro-s[8][5]
    • Pre-Armenian: *megʷ-ro-s
  • (perhaps) negʷ-no-s[8]

Notes

Perhaps because of its expressive meaning the word was subject to a good deal of morphological and occasionally phonological reshaping.[7]

References
  1. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 513–515
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 769
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 339
  4. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*nakwe/ada-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382
  5. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nūdus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 417-418
  6. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “nāga-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 33
  7. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 45
  8. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, pages 463–465
  9. Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “nagna-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 6
  10. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 294
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