Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pótis

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

Etymology

Derksen writes: “It is often assumed that the meaning ‘lord, husband’ derives from an even older meaning ‘self’, as found in pàts” (see Lithuanian pàts (“(singular masculine) self”)).

Noun

*pótis m

1. master, ruler
2. husband

Inflection

Athematic, acrostatic
	singular
nominative	*pótis
genitive	*pétis
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*pótis	*pótih₁(e)	*póteyes
vocative	*póti	*pótih₁(e)	*póteyes
accusative	*pótim	*pótih₁(e)	*pótims
genitive	*pétis	*?	*pétyoHom
ablative	*pétis	*?	*pétimos
dative	*pétyey	*?	*pétimos
locative	*péti	*?	*pétisu
instrumental	*pétih₁	*?	*pétimis

Derived terms

• *déms pótis
• *gʰóstipotis
• *pótnih₂ (“wife, mistress”)
• *wiḱpótis
• ^?*népōts

Descendants

• Proto-Albanian: *pat(i)-
  • Albanian: pata
• Proto-Balto-Slavic: *patis
  • Latgalian: pats, pots
  • Latvian: pats
  • Lithuanian: pats
  • Proto-Slavic: *potь (in *gospodь and *potьběga)
• Proto-Germanic: *fadiz (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Hellenic: *pótis (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *pátiš (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Italic: *potis (see there for further descendants)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 346