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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/weizos

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“poison”).

Noun

*weizos n

  1. poison

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Latin: vīrus (see there for further descendants)

References
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vīrus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 682
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