< Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European

Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/mews-

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

*mews-[1]

  1. moss

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mews-
  • *mews-o-m[2]
    • Proto-Germanic: *meusą (see there for further descendants)
  • *mus-o-m
    • Proto-Germanic: *musą (see there for further descendants)
  • *mus-o-s
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *musas
      • Lithuanian: mū̃sas
      • Proto-Slavic: *mъxъ (see there for further descendants)
  • *mows-ko-s
  • *mews-yeh₂
    • Proto-Germanic: *miuzijō (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mūscus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “musa(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 379
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.