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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pótis
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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
Etymology
Derksen writes: “It is often assumed that the meaning ‘lord, husband’ derives from an even older meaning ‘self’, as found in pàts” (see Lithuanian pàts (“(singular masculine) self”)).
Inflection
| Athematic, acrostatic | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | |||
| nominative | *pótis | ||
| genitive | *pétis | ||
| singular | dual | plural | |
| nominative | *pótis | *pótih₁(e) | *póteyes |
| vocative | *póti | *pótih₁(e) | *póteyes |
| accusative | *pótim | *pótih₁(e) | *pótims |
| genitive | *pétis | *? | *pétyoHom |
| ablative | *pétis | *? | *pétimos |
| dative | *pétyey | *? | *pétimos |
| locative | *péti | *? | *pétisu |
| instrumental | *pétih₁ | *? | *pétimis |
Derived terms
- *déms pótis
- *gʰóstipotis
- *pótnih₂ (“wife, mistress”)
- *wiḱpótis
- ?*népōts
Descendants
- Proto-Albanian: *pat(i)-
- Albanian: pata
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *patis
- Proto-Germanic: *fadiz (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *pótis (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *pátiš (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Italic: *potis (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 346
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