Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/plúsis

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

Reconstruction

The original PIE form was distorted by folk etymologies in various daughters, though most of them point to something like *plúsis, with the voiceless initial stop, and the root sequence of *-lu-. Other variant root forms are *plows- *pusl-, *psul- or *bʰlus-.

Compare Proto-Turkic *bürge and Proto-Afroasiatic *pVrɣVč (“flea”).

Noun

*plúsis

1. flea

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Proto-Albanian: *pleustā < *plews-
  • Albanian: plesht
• Armenian: < *pluso-
  • Old Armenian: լու (lu)
    • Armenian: լու (lu)
• Proto-Balto-Slavic: *blúšāˀ < *b(ʰ)lus-eh₂ (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Germanic: *flauhaz < *plówkos (see there for further descendants)
• Hellenic: < *psuly(e)h₂ < *plus-y(e)h₂
  • Ancient Greek: ψύλλα (psúlla)
    • Greek: ψύλλος (psýllos)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *plúšiš
  • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *plúṣiṣ
    • Sanskrit: प्लुषि (plúṣi)
  • Proto-Iranian: *frúšiš
    • Pashto: ورږه (wrə́ẓ̌a) (under the influence of سپږه (spə́ẓ̌a))
    • Yidgha: [script needed] (frīgo)
• Italic: < *puslek- < *plus-ek-
  • Latin: pūlex (see there for further descendants)

References

• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 206