Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/énu

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

Adverb

*énu

  1. along, after[1]

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms

  • *ḗnu[1]
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ā́nu
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ānušakš (in sequence, in turn)
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *ā́nu
        • Sanskrit: अनानुकृत्य (anānukṛtyá-, inimitable)
        • Sanskrit: आनानुद (ānudá-, unrelenting)
    • Proto-Germanic: *ēnu (without) (< “past” < “along”) (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ánu[2]
    • Proto-Iranian:
      • Avestan: 𐬀𐬥𐬎 (anu, after; corresponding to)
      • Old Persian: 𐎠𐎵𐎺 (a-nu-v /⁠anuv⁠/)
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
      • Sanskrit: अनु (anu, after, again, next)
  • Proto-Italic:
    • Latin: in- (after)
  • Proto-Germanic: *enu (without)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, pages 241-44
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “ánu”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, pages 37-38
  3. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ē̆nu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118