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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dus-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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

Prefix

*dus- [1]

  1. bad
    Antonym: *h₁su-

Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Proto-Indo-European_words_prefixed_with_*dus-' title='Category:Proto-Indo-European words prefixed with *dus-'>Proto-Indo-European words prefixed with *dus-</a>

Descendants
  • (perhaps) Armenian:
    • Old Armenian տ- (t-)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Slavic: *dъždžь (“rainstorm, rain”) (< *dus-dyu- (“bad sky”), from *dyu- (“sky, day”))
  • Celtic: *dus-
    • Brythonic:
      • Middle Welsh: dy-
    • Goidelic:
  • Germanic: *tuz- (see there for further descendants)
  • Hellenic: *dus-
  • Indo-Iranian: *duš- (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Ringe, Don (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford University Press
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