Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/hāns

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From earlier *xāns (to differentiate it from a later form *hāns if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (goose).

Noun[edit]

*hāns f[1]

  1. goose

Declension[edit]

consonant stemDeclension of *hāns (consonant stem)
case singular plural
nominative *hāns *hānes
vocative *hāns *hānes
accusative *hānem *hānens
genitive *hānes, hānos *hānom
dative *hānei *hānəβos
ablative *hāni? hāne? *hānəβos
locative *hāni? hāne? *hānəβos

Descendants[edit]

  • Latin: ānser (see there for further descendants)

References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ānser”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 44