Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁su-
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Proto-Indo-European[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Possible metathesis of *h₁wes- (“good”), or perhaps related to *h₁es- (“to be”).[1]
Prefix[edit]
*h₁su-[2]
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Proto-Celtic: *su- (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *su-
- Proto-Hellenic: *ehu- (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hsu- (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Armenian: հ- (h-) (or inherited and contaminated with the Iranian)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “h₁u̯es-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 686-690
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “su-, sū-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1037-1038