Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/hostipotis

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This Proto-Italic 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-Italic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From earlier *xostipotis (to differentiate it from a later form *hostipotis if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis, compound of *gʰóstis (stranger) and *pótis (master).

Noun[edit]

*hostipotis m[1]

  1. host

Inflection[edit]

i-stemDeclension of *hostipotis (i-stem)
case singular plural
nominative *hostipotis *hostipotēs
vocative *hostipotis *hostipotēs
accusative *hostipotim *hostipotins
genitive *hostipoteis *hostipotjom
dative *hostipotei *hostipotiβos
ablative *hostipotīd *hostipotiβos
locative *hostipotei *hostipotiβos

Descendants[edit]

  • Latin: hospes (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Sabellic: *hostipots

References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN