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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂eǵʰ-

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

Alternative reconstructions

Noun

*h₂eǵʰ-

  1. cow

Reconstruction notes

The vocalism of Celtic and Armenian do not match, the first requiring *h₂e-, the second *h₁e-. Therefore it is often assumed that one of them is unrelated.

Descendants
  • Proto-Armenian:
  • Proto-Celtic: *agos
    • Old Irish: ag (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Haȷ́ʰíH (see there for further descendants)

Descendants
  1. Martirosyan, Hrach (2013) “The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian”, in Journal of Language Relationship‎, number 10, page 99
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