Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sélos
Proto-Indo-European
Etymology
From a late, southern dialectal variant that is found mostly in East Indo-European languages, namely the Armenian, Greek and Indo-Iranian branches.
A derivative of the term also spread to Central Europe, however.[1]
Noun
*sélos n (oblique stem *séles-)[2][3]
- marsh
- salt marsh
Inflection
| Athematic, acrostatic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *sélos | ||
| genitive | *sélesos | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *sélos | *sélesih₁ | *sélōs |
| vocative | *sélos | *sélesih₁ | *sélōs |
| accusative | *sélos | *sélesih₁ | *sélōs |
| genitive | *sélesos | *? | *sélesoHom |
| ablative | *sélesos | *? | *sélesmos, *sélesbʰos |
| dative | *sélesey | *? | *sélesmos, *sélesbʰos |
| locative | *séles, *sélesi | *? | *sélesu |
| instrumental | *sélesh₁ | *? | *sélesmis, *sélesbʰis |
Derived terms
- *séles-wn̥t-ih₂ ~ *seles-wn̥t-yéh₂s
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *SáraswatiH (see there for further descendants)
Descendants
- Proto-Armenian: (perhaps)
- Old Armenian: եղտիւր (ełtiwr)
- Proto-Hellenic: *hélos
- Ancient Greek: ἕλος (hélos)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *sáras (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic:
- German: Saale
References
- ^ Thomas V. Gamkrelidze; Vjaceslav V. Ivanov (15 December 2010). Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and Proto-Culture. Part I: The Text. Part II: Bibliography, Indexes. Walter de Gruyter. p. 581
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἕλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 415
- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 253