Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ḱeh₁s-

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

Root

*ḱeh₁s-

to teach, to indicate

Derived terms

*ḱeh₁s-ti (athematic present)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ćáHsti (see there for further descendants)
*ḱeh₁s-trom
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *ćaHstram
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *śaHstram
    - Sanskrit: शास्त्र (śāstrá, “teaching; order, command; precept, rule”)
Unsorted formations:
- Proto-Tocharian: *käṣṣī (“teacher, master”) (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Germanic: *hazjaną

References

Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 533, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 533
Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 356

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