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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dʰǵʰu-

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

Found only in East Indo-European languages, namely the Armenian, Greek and Baltic branches. The Indo-Iranian term was presumably lost and was replaced by *mátsyas, possibly from the BMAC substrate [Term?]. Kloekhorst has construed the root as *dǵʰuH- and connected it with another root *deǵʰ- (“liquid?”). Compare Old Irish deug (“drink, draught, potion”), Lithuanian dažaĩ (“paint, dye”).[1]
Possibly connected to Hebrew דָּג‎ (dāḡ, “fish”) and Ugaritic 𐎄𐎂 (dg, “fish”).

Root

*dʰǵʰu-

  1. fish
    Synonym: *peysḱ- (western dialects)

Derived terms
  • Unsorted formations:
    • Armenian:
      • Old Armenian: ձուկն (jukn)
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *źū́ˀs (see there for further descendants)
    • Hellenic:
    • Indic:

References
  1. Kortlandt, Frederik (2014), “Proto-Indo-European “thorn”-clusters”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics‎, volume 127, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →JSTOR
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