Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/wōks

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 *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), an o-grade root noun of *wekʷ- (“to speak”). The change from /kʷ/ to /k/ is unexpected; the expected descendant of *wṓkʷs is *wokʷs or *wōkʷs, which would have yielded the Latin vox stem voqu- or vōqu-.

    Noun

    *wōks f[1]

    1. voice

    Declension

    Declension of *wōks (consonant stem)
    singular plural
    nominative *wōks *wokes
    vocative *wōks *wokes
    accusative *wokem *wokens
    genitive *wokes, wokos *wokom
    dative *wokei *wokβos
    ablative *woki? woke? *wokβos
    locative *woki? woke? *wokβos

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Latin: vōx, vocō (either a denominative from the oblique stem *wokʷ- or from an intermediate derivative *wokʷ-ā < *wokʷ-eh₂)

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “vōx”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 691-692
    2. ^ Poultney, James Wilson (1959), The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, Baltimore: American Philological Association, page 325
    3. ^ Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 67
    4. ^ Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 58
    5. ^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “advocātus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 15
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