Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/fortis

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰértis, with semantic shift from "load" > "chance, luck".[1] For the semantic development, compare Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favorable wind”), from the same root.

Noun

*fortis f

  1. luck, chance

Declension

Declension of *fortis (i-stem)
singular plural
nominative *fortis *fortēs
vocative *fortis *fortēs
accusative *fortim *fortins
genitive *forteis *fortjom
dative *fortei *fortiβos
ablative *fortīd *fortiβos
locative *fortei *fortiβos

Descendants

  • Latin: fors
  • Paelignian: forte (gen. sg.) (if not borrowed from Latin)

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fors, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 236
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