Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁órǵʰis

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *h₄órǵʰis
• *h₃érǵʰis (the h-less hittite form would arise in the zero-grade and get levelled by the ablaut)

Noun

*h₁órǵʰis

1. testicle

Inflection

Athematic, proterokinetic
	singular
nominative	*h₁órǵʰis
genitive	*h₁r̥ǵʰéys
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*h₁órǵʰis	*h₁órǵʰih₁(e)	*h₁órǵʰeyes
vocative	*h₁órǵʰi	*h₁órǵʰih₁(e)	*h₁órǵʰeyes
accusative	*h₁órǵʰim	*h₁órǵʰih₁(e)	*h₁órǵʰims
genitive	*h₁r̥ǵʰéys	*?	*h₁r̥ǵʰéyoHom
ablative	*h₁r̥ǵʰéys	*?	*h₁r̥ǵʰímos
dative	*h₁r̥ǵʰéyey	*?	*h₁r̥ǵʰímos
locative	*h₁r̥ǵʰéy, *h₁r̥ǵʰḗy	*?	*h₁r̥ǵʰísu
instrumental	*h₁r̥ǵʰíh₁	*?	*h₁r̥ǵʰímis

Descendants

• Proto-Albanian: *ardzai
  • Albanian: herdhe
• Proto-Anatolian:
  • Hittite: [script needed] (arki-)
• Proto-Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: որձիք (orjikʻ)
• Proto-Celtic: *orgyā
  • Middle Irish: uirge
    • Irish: úirí
• Proto-Hellenic: *órkʰis
  • Ancient Greek: ὄρχις (órkhis) (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian:
  • Proto-Iranian:
    • Avestan: 𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬍 (ər^əzī)

References

• 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 184