Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/webʰ-

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

Alternative reconstructions

*h₁webʰ-[1]

Root

*webʰ- [2]

to weave, braid

Derived terms

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*wébʰ-e-ti ~ *wébʰ-enti (thematic root present)
- Germanic: *webaną (see there for further descendants)
*wébʰ-ti ~ *ubʰ-énti (athematic root present)
- Indo-Iranian: *wabdʰi
  - Iranian: *wabdi
    - Avestan: 𐬬𐬀𐬟-‎ (vaf-, “to weave”)
    - Parthian: wfyd (ind.3sg.)
    - Old Persian: [Term?]
      - Middle Persian: wp- (waf-)
        Persian: بافتن‎ (bâftan)
*wobʰ-éye-ti (causative)
- Germanic: *wabjaną
  - Old Norse: vefja
    - Icelandic: vefja
    - Faroese: vevja
*u-né-bʰ-e-ti ~ *u-m-bʰ-énti (nasal-infix present)
- Indo-Iranian: *umbʰáti
  - Indo-Aryan: *umbʰáti
    - Sanskrit: उम्भति (umbháti), उनब्द्धि (unábddhi)
*ubʰ-néH-ti ~ *ubʰ-nH-énti (*néH-present)
- Indo-Iranian: *ubʰnáHti
  - Indo-Aryan: *ubʰnā́ti
    - Sanskrit: उभ्नाति (ubhnā́ti, “cover over; hurt, kill”)
  - Iranian: *ubnáHti
    - Kurdish: hûnan
*ubʰ-yéti ~ *ubʰ-yónti (*yé-present)
- Indo-Iranian: *ubʰyáti
  - Iranian: *ubyáti
    - Avestan: 𐬎𐬟𐬌𐬌𐬀-‎ (ufiia-, “to weave, to web”)
*wobʰ-eh₂-ti (o-grade eh₂-iterative-intensive)
- Tocharian: *wäp- (“to weave, braid”)
  - Tocharian A: wäp-
  - Tocharian B: wāp-
*wobʰ-ó-s
- Tocharian: *yape (“spider”)
*ubʰ-tó-s
- Indo-Iranian: *ubdʰás
  - Iranian: *ubdáh
    - Avestan: 𐬎𐬠𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬀‎ (ubdaēna, “made of cloth”)
*wobʰ-s-éh₂
- Balto-Slavic: *wops(w)aʔ
  - Latvian: vapsene
  - Lithuanian: vapsvà, vapsà
  - Old Prussian: wobse
  - Slavic: *osa (see there for further descendants)
- Celtic: *woxsā
  - Brythonic: [Term?]
    - Old Breton: guohi
      - Middle Breton: goui
        Breton: moui, boui
    - Old Cornish: guhi-en
      - Cornish: gohi
    - Middle Welsh: gwychi
      - Welsh: gwchi
    - → Old Irish: foich
- Germanic: *wapsō (see there for further descendants)
- Indo-Iranian: *wabžʰáH (see there for further descendants)
- Italic: *waspā
  - Latin: vespa
*wébʰ-tis
- Germanic: *wiftiz (see there for further descendants)
*wobʰ-yo-
- Germanic: *wabją (“web”) (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted formations

Albanian: vej (< webʰnyō)
Hellenic: [Term?]
- Ancient Greek: ὑφαίνω (huphaínō)
  - Greek: υφαίνω (yfaíno)
Germanic: *wabōną, *wabijaną (“to wave”)
- Old English: wafian (“to wave”), ƿafian
  - Middle English: waven
    - English: wave
- Middle High German: waben (“to wave, undulate”)
- Old Norse: váfa
Indo-Iranian: *wabʰuš
- Iranian: *wabuš
  - Avestan: 𐬬𐬀𐬟𐬏𐬱‎ (vafūš, “hymn, web”)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill
Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “weven”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill

[2] Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “weven”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press