Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/leǵ-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/legʰ-

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

*leǵ- (imperfective)

1. to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak

Synonyms

• *les-

Derived terms

• *leǵ- (root present)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *légō
    • Ancient Greek: λέγω (légō)
      • Doric: ἐλώγη (elṓgē)
  • Proto-Italic: *legō
    • Latin: legō (see there for further descendants)
• *leǵ-s
  • Proto-Italic: *lēks
    • Latin: lēx
• *leǵ-no-
  • Proto-Italic: *lignoum
    • Latin: lignum
• *leǵ-mn̥-
  • Proto-Italic: *legūmen
    • Latin: legūmen (with insertion)
• *loǵ-os
  • Proto-Hellenic: *loǵos
    • Ancient Greek: λόγος (lógos)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Old Albanian: ënbëljedh, zgëledh
    • Albanian: mbledh, zgjedh, zgledh
  • Tocharian:
    • Tocharian A: läk-
    • Tocharian B: läk-
  • Indo-Iranian:
    • Iranian:
      • Middle Persian [script needed] (lazūr, “forest”) (possibly)

Further reading

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 658
• A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN