Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dʰeh₁(y)-

*dʰeh₁(y)-

1. to suckle, nurse

• *dʰéh₁(y)-eti (root present)
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dēˀtis
    • Proto-Slavic: *dětь (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *dʰáyati
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *dʰáyati
      • Sanskrit: धयति (dháyati)
• *dʰ(h₁)-éye-ti
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dīˀtei
    • Proto-Slavic: *diti
      • ⇒ Proto-Slavic: *dojiti (causative) (see there for further descendants)
• *dʰeh₁(i)-mh₁n-éh₂
  • Proto-Italic: *fēmanā (see there for further descendants)
• *dʰeh₁(i)-to-
  • Proto-Italic: *fētos
    • Latin: fētus (“pregnant”)
• *dʰeh₁(i)-tu-
  • Proto-Italic: *fētus
    • Latin: fētus (“offspring”) (see there for further descendants)
• *dʰeh₁(i)-no-
  • Proto-Italic: *fēnom
    • Latin: fēnum
• *dʰeh₁(i)-n-os ~ *dʰeh₁(y)-n-es-
  • Proto-Italic: *fēnos
    • Latin: fēnus
• *dʰeh₁(i)-lu-
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: θῆλυς (thêlus, “feminine”)
• *dʰeh₁(i)-lew-ih₂
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: θήλεια (thḗleia, “feminine”)
• *dʰeh₁(y)-lw-ih₂-k-
  • Proto-Italic: *fēlīks
    • Latin: fēlīx
• *dʰeh₁(i)-li-o-s
  • Proto-Italic: *feiljos (see there for further descendants)
• *dʰeh₁(i)-l-éh₂-ye-ti
  • Proto-Italic: *fēlājō
    • Latin: fēlō, fellō
• *dʰédʰh₁i (“milk curd”)
  • Proto-Albanian: *dedi
    • Albanian: djathë
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *dʰádʰHi
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *dádʰHi
      • Sanskrit: दधि (dádhi, “coagulated milk, curd”) (see there for further descendants)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Albanian: *dela
    • Albanian: djalë
  • Proto-Albanian: *dailjā
    • Albanian: dele
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: դիեմ (diem)
    • Old Armenian: դալ (dal)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Latvian: dēls
    • Lithuanian: dėlė
    • Old Prussian: dadan
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: [Term?] (“pregnant”)
    • Eastern Baltic:
      • Lithuanian: dieni
    • → Proto-Finnic: *tiineh (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Celtic: *dinati (see there for further descendants)
  • Celtic:
    • Old Irish: dínu (“lamb”)
  • Proto-Germanic: *dajjaną, *dēaną, *dilō, *dijōną (see there for further descendants)
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”), θεῖος (theîos, “uncle”), τίτθη (títthē, “nurse”), τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”), Τηθύς (Tēthús)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *dʰáynuš
    • Proto-Iranian: *dáynuš
      • Avestan: 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu)
      • Northern Kurdish: dê, da, dayik (“mother”)
      • Middle Persian: dʾyk' (dāyag, “nurse”)
        • Persian: دایه (dâye)
      • → Old Armenian: դայեակ (dayeak) (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *dʰa(H)inúš (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian:
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan:
      • Sanskrit: धान्य (dhānya) (see there for further descendants)

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 242

• Oshiro, Terumasa (1988) “Some Luwian words of Indo-European origin”, in Orient, volume 24, page 49: “(5) suckling (241)”