Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/hortos

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 *ǵʰórtos, from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). De Vaan is suspicious of the o-grade in the Celtic and Greek cognates (*-tós usually demanding the zero grade), believing that the similar o-grade *gʰórdʰos (from *gʰerdʰ- +‎ *-os) must have contaminated it.[1]

Noun

*hortos m

  1. enclosure

Inflection

Declension of *hortos (o-stem)
singular plural
nominative *hortos *hortōs, hortoi
vocative *horte *hortōs, hortoi
accusative *hortom *hortons
genitive *hortosjo, hortī *hortom
dative *hortōi *hortois
ablative *hortōd *hortois
locative *hortei *hortois

Descendants

  • Latin: hortus (“garden”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Oscan: 𐌇𐌞𐌓𐌆 (húrz, “enclosure”)

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “hortus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 290-291
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