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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂weg-

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

*h₂weg-[1]

  1. to increase, to enlarge

Derived terms
Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂weg-‎ (10 c, 0 e)
  • *h₂ewg- (reanalysed form of the same root)
  • *h₂wég-se-ti (se-present)
    • Proto-Germanic: *wahsijaną (intensive from root reanalysed as *h₂wegs-)
    • Proto-Hellenic: *awéksō
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hwakšáyati
      • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *Hwakṣáyati
        • Sanskrit: वक्षयति (vakṣáyati) (intensive from root reanalysed as *h₂wegs-)
      • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hwaxšáyati
  • *h₂wég-s-es ~ *h₂wég-s-os- (“breast, chest”)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hwákšas
  • *h₂weg-s-tu-s
    • Proto-Germanic: *wahstuz (see there for further descendants)
  • Unsorted formations:
    • (possibly) Proto-Celtic: *wegrom (“grass, hay”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *wōkraz (“increase, gain, yield”) (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Slavic: *ovoťe (“fruit”) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  2. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
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