Reconstruction:Proto-Hellenic/kʷétwores
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This Proto-Hellenic 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-Hellenic
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| Cardinal: *kʷétwores Ordinal: *kʷétwərtos | ||
Etymology
[edit]From earlier Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”).[1]
Numeral
[edit]*kʷétwores
Inflection
[edit]This numeral needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]- Ancient Greek: τέσσαρες (téssares), τέτταρες (téttares)
- Greek: τέσσερις (tésseris)
- Mycenaean Greek: 𐀤𐀵𐀫 (qe-to-ro)[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τέσσαρες, -α”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1471-2
- ^ Mycenaean Greek Word List