Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/-jos

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

See *-jōs.

Suffix

*-jos

  1. Forms comparative adverbs.

Descendants

  • Latin: -ius
  • Oscan: -is (as in Oscan fortis (more strongly))[1]

References

  1. ^ Vine, Brent (2017), “48. The morphology of Italic”, in Jared Klein, Brian Joseph and Matthias Fritz, editors, Volume 2 Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook, De Gruyter Mouton, page 764