Reconstruction talk:Proto-Indo-European/sēmi
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Malku H₂n̥rés in topic Coherence of given etymology
What reason given by authors for same root going from meaning "one" to "half"? -GuitarDudeness (talk) 13:42, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
Coherence of given etymology[edit]
The etymology of *sēmi reads it's the locative of the root *sem- but roots aren't inflected, "locative" isn't enough precise (gender? number?), and the corresponding noun *sḗm has *sémi for the locative singular masculine which is different from *sēmi. That's not coherent. We can't check using other numbers' fractional because not recorded on Wiktionary. How do we do? And the semantic shift from the ordinal of 1 to the fractional of 2. Malku H₂n̥rés (talk) 19:10, 7 July 2020 (UTC)