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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/sewyós

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

Adjective

*(h₁)sewyós[1][2]

  1. left, left-hand

Descendants
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *sjaujás (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Celtic: *souyos (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *sawyás (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, page 9
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 2647
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