Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʷʰedʰ-

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Root

*gʷʰedʰ-

1. to request, pray, ask for

Derived terms

• *gʷʰédʰ-ye-ti (ye-present)
• *gʷʰ-ne-dʰ- ~ *gʷʰ-n̥-dʰ- (nasal-infix present)
  • Balto-Slavic: *gend-
    • Proto-Slavic: *žę̄dàti, *žęďati (see there for further descendants)
• *gʷʰédʰ-ti-s ~ *gʷʰdʰ-téy-s
  • Proto-Celtic: [Term?], *gʷeddis
    • Brythonic:
      • Welsh: gweddi
    • Old Irish: geiss (“curse, taboo”)
• *gʷʰedʰ-eh₂
  • (see there for further descendants)
• *gʷʰodʰ-yeh₂
  • Celtic:
    • Old Irish guide (“prayer”)
      • Irish guí (“prayer”)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: գոթի (gotʻi, “worship, sorcery”) (?)
  • Balto-Slavic: *gend-
    • Lithuanian: gedáuti, gedė́ti
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: πόθος (póthos), ποθή (pothḗ), ποθέω (pothéō) (< gʷʰedʰ-s-o-), θέσσασθαι (théssasthai) (< gʷʰedʰ-s-)

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “488”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 488
• Derksen, Rick (2008). Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon. Brill Leiden-Boston, p. 571