preplotatu
Umbrian
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Alternative forms
- preplohotatu
Etymology
Disputed. Prefixed with pre-.
- According to de Vaan, from a denominative verb formed to Proto-Italic *plautā, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-. Related to Latin plautus, from Proto-Italic *plautos. Poultney suggests that based of the verb may be related to plotus, which is considered by Festus to be an Umbrian word meaning "flat-footed."
- According to Buck, from a denominative verb form to earlier *plaudeto-, which is perhaps related to plaudō.
Verb
preplotatu (Third-person singular future imperative) (late Iguvine)
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “plautus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 471
- Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, pages 281, 343
- Poultney, James Wilson (1959), The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, Baltimore: American Philological Association, page 191
- Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2017), “The dialectology of Italic”, in Brian Joseph, Matthias Fritz, Jared Klein, editors, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, De Gruyter, page 845