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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂weg-

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

Root

*h₂weg- [1]

  1. to increase, to enlarge

Derived terms
► <a href='/wiki/Category:Terms_derived_from_the_PIE_root_*h%E2%82%82weg-' title='Category:Terms derived from the PIE root *h₂weg-'>Terms derived from the PIE root *h₂weg-</a>
  • *h₂ewg- (reanalysed form of the same root)
  • *h₂wég-se-ti (se-present)
    • Germanic: *wahsijaną (intensive from root reanalysed as *h₂wegs-)
    • Hellenic: *awéksō
    • Indo-Iranian: *Hwakšáyati
      • Indo-Aryan: *Hwakṣáyati
        • Sanskrit: वक्षयति (vakṣáyati) (intensive from root reanalysed as *h₂wegs-)
      • Indo-Iranian: *Hwaxšáyati
  • *h₂wég-s-os ~ *h₂wég-s-es- (“breast, chest”)
  • *h₂weg-s-tu-s
    • Germanic: *wahstuz (see there for further descendants)
  • Unsorted formations:
    • (possibly) Celtic: *wegrom (“grass, hay”)

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