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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/seykʷ-

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

Root

*seykʷ-[1][2]

  1. to moisten
  2. to filter

Derived terms
  • *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”)
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *sinćáti
      • Proto-Iranian: *hinčáti
        • Avestan: 𐬵𐬌𐬧𐬗𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (hiṇcaiti)
  • *sik-méh₂-s
    • Proto-Hellenic: *hikmás
      • Ancient Greek: ἰκμάς (ikmás, “wetness, moisture, secretion”)
  • Unsorted formations
    • Proto-Germanic: *saiwiz (“sea”)
    • Sanskrit: सेक (seka, “sprinkling”)

References
  1. Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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