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Proto-Indo-European[edit]
*seykʷ-[1][2]
- to moisten
- to filter
Derived terms[edit]
- *séykʷ-t ~ *sikʷ-ént (athematic root aorist)
- Proto-Germanic: *sīhwaną (“to filter”) (see there for further descendants)
- *sikʷ-éh₁-ti ~ *sikʷ-éh₁-n̥ti (“*eh₁-stative”)
- Proto-Slavic: *sьcati (“to piss”) (see there for further descendants)
- *si-né-kʷ-ti ~ *si-n-kʷ-énti (nasal-infix present)
- Proto-Anatolian:
- Hittite: [Term?] (/ḫinikttari/, “wet, pour, deluge”)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *sinčáti (“to pour”)
- *sik-méh₂-s
- Proto-Hellenic: *hikmás
- Ancient Greek: ἰκμάς (ikmás, “wetness, moisture, secretion”)
- Unsorted formations
- Proto-Germanic: *saiwiz (“sea”)
- Sanskrit: सेक (seka, “sprinkling”)
References[edit]
- ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN