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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂ōwyóm

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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

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Etymology

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    Likely a vṛddhi derivative of *h₂éwis (bird),[1][2][3] though some scholars have argued this as morphologically unlikely.[4]

    Noun

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    *h₂ōwyóm n (non-ablauting)[5][1][2][3]

    1. egg

    Inflection

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    Thematic
    singular
    nominative *h₂ōwyóm
    genitive *h₂ōwyósyo
    singular dual plural
    nominative *h₂ōwyóm *h₂ōwyóy(h₁) *h₂ōwyéh₂
    vocative *h₂ōwyóm *h₂ōwyóy(h₁) *h₂ōwyéh₂
    accusative *h₂ōwyóm *h₂ōwyóy(h₁) *h₂ōwyéh₂
    genitive *h₂ōwyósyo *? *h₂ōwyóHom
    ablative *h₂ōwyéad *? *h₂ōwyómos, *h₂ōwyóbʰos
    dative *h₂ōwyóey *? *h₂ōwyómos, *h₂ōwyóbʰos
    locative *h₂ōwyéy, *h₂ōwyóy *? *h₂ōwyóysu
    instrumental *h₂ōwyóh₁ *? *h₂ōwyṓys

    Alternative reconstructions

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    • *(H)ō-Huy-óm[6]
    • *ōyom[4]
    • *h₂oh₂wyom[7]

    Descendants

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    • Proto-Albanian:
    • Proto-Armenian:
      • >? Old Armenian: ձու (ju) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *ṓˀja
      • Proto-Slavic: *ȃje (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Celtic: *āwyom (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *ajją (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Hellenic: *ōyyón (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hāwyám
      • Proto-Iranian: *Hāwyám (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Italic: *ōwom
      • Latin: ōvum (see there for further descendants)

    References

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    1. 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ōvum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438
    2. 2.0 2.1 Zair, Nicholas (2011), “PIE ‘bird’ and ‘egg’ after Schindler”, in Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, volume 65, pages 287–310
    3. 3.0 3.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ajja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 17
    4. 4.0 4.1 Darms, Georges (1978), Schwäher und Schwager, Hahn und Huhn : Die Vr̥ddhi-Ableitung im Germanischen [Schwäher and Schwager, Hahn and Huhn: The Vr̥ddhi Derivation in Germanic] (in German), Munich: R. Kitzinger, pages 322, 509
    5. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “ō(u̯)i̯-om”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 783–784
    6. ^ Schindler, Jochem (1969), “Die idg. Wörter für “Vogel” und “Ei” [The [Indo-European] words for ‘bird’ and ‘egg’]”, in Die Sprache (in German), volume 15, pages 144–167
    7. ^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 330
    8. ^ Oryol, Vladimir E. (1998), “ve ~ vo”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 497

    Further reading

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    • Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 53, 300
    • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143:*hₐō(w)i-om ‘egg’