Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/wīs

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 *wéyh₁s (“force, vehemence”), from *weyh₁- (“to rush”).

Noun

*wīs f[1]

  1. strength, force, power

Declension

The declension is almost a regular third declension noun, but the genitive singular always uses -es rather than having -os as an option and the accusative singular's ending has been reduced to just the letter "m" itself, rather than -em as one would expect.

Declension of *wīs (consonant stem, irregular)
singular plural
nominative *wīs —
vocative *wīs —
accusative *wīm —
genitive *wīes —
dative *wīei —
ablative *wīe —
locative *wīe —

Descendants

  • Latin: vīs (with plural forms from an extended form of the root, possibly the same root as vir)
    • → English: vis, vim
  • Faliscan: ves

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 683
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