Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sed-

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

*sed- (perfective)

1. to sit

Derived terms

• *sédt ~ *sdént (athematic root aorist)
• *sí-sd-e-ti (thematic i-reduplicated present)
• *sed-ti (root present)
• *séd-ye-ti (ye-present)
  • Proto-Germanic: *sitjaną
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: ἕζομαι (hézomai)
• *sod-éye-ti (“to set”, causative)
• *sed-éh₁-ye-ti (eh₁-stative)
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *sēdētei
    • Latvian: sēdēt
    • Lithuanian: sėdėti
    • Proto-Slavic: *sěděti (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *sedēō
    • Latin: sedeō (see there for further descendants)
• *sed-éh₂-ye-ti (eh₂-factitive)
  • Italic:
    • Latin: sēdō
• *ḱie-sd-é-ti
  • Proto-Italic: *kezdō
    • Latin: cēdō
• *sed-i-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: sēdēs
• *sed-ti-
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: ἕσις (hésis)
  • Italic:
    • Latin: sessiō
• *séd-os ~ *séd-es
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: ἕδος (hédos)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *sádas
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *sádas
      • Sanskrit: सदस् (sádas)
• *sod-o-
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Proto-Slavic: *xodъ (see there for further descendants)
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: ὁδός (hodós)
  • Indo-Iranian:
    • Indo-Aryan:
      • Sanskrit: सादस् (sādas)
• *sod-yom
  • Proto-Celtic: *sodyom
    • Old Irish: suide
      • Irish: suí
      • Scottish Gaelic: suidhe
    • Welsh: sedd
  • Italic:
    • Latin: solium
• *sed-lo-
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: ետղ (etł), տեղ (teł)
  • Proto-Germanic: *setlaz (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Slavic: *sědlo
• *sed-dʰlo-
  • Italic:
    • Latin: sella
• *sod-tlō-
  • Proto-Germanic: *sadulaz (see there for further descendants)
• *sed-tós
• *sed-ro-
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: ἕδρα (hédra)
• *sed-s
  • Italic:
    • Latin: dēses, (dē)ses, (prae)ses
• *ni-sd-ós (“nest”)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: հեծանիմ (hecanim)
    • (possibly) Old Armenian: զիստ (zist)
    • (possibly) Old Armenian: առիճ (aṙič)
    • (possibly) Old Armenian: ատեան (atean)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Latvian: segli
  • Celtic:
    • Old Irish:
      • Irish: suigh
      • Scottish Gaelic: suidh
    • Welsh: eistedd (from *eks-dī-sedo-)
  • Proto-Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: ἱδρύω (hidrúō)

References

• [2] - Word-A-Week in Indo-European
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 884