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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wiḱpótis

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

Etymology

From *weyḱ- (“village, household”) +‎ *pótis (“master”).

Noun

*wiḱpótis m [1][2][3]

  1. clan chief
  2. master of a household
  3. lord

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms
  • *wiḱ-pót-nih₂[4]
    • Albanian: *dzwāptnjā
    • Balto-Slavic: *wiśpatnīˀ[5]
      • Lithuanian: viēšpati (“queen, mistress, lady”)
      • Old Prussian: waispattin (“mistress of a house”)
    • Indo-Iranian: *wiĉpátniH
      • Indo-Aryan: *wiśpátniH
        • Sanskrit: विश्पत्नी (viśpátnī)

Descendants
  • Albanian: *dzwāpt[4]
    • Albanian: zot (“lord”)
  • Balto-Slavic: *wiśpatis[6]
    • Lithuanian: viēšpats (“lord”)
  • Indo-Iranian: *wićpátiš
    • Indo-Aryan: *wiśpátiṣ
    • Iranian: *wiĉpátiš
      • Avestan: 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (vīspaiti, “master of borough, clan-chief, household-chief”)
      • Old Persian: 𐎻𐎰𐎳𐎫 (*viθfáti)
        • Middle Persian: [script needed] (wyspt' /wisbed/, “clan-chief, village headman”)
        • Manichaean Middle Persian: [script needed] (wysbyd /wisbed/, “village headman”)
          • > (right loanword) Persian: ویسبذ‎ (wîsbað, “a class of rulers in ancient Iran”)
  • Tocharian: [Term?]
    • Tocharian A: wikpots (“master of the clan”)

See also

References
  1. Mallory, James Patrick (1989) In Search of the Indo-Europeans, Thames and Hudson, →ISBN, page 124
  2. Anthony, David (2007) The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 92
  3. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 268
  4. Orel, Vladimir (1998), “zot”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill
  5. Derksen, Rick (2015), “viēšpati”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 502
  6. Derksen, Rick (2015), “viēšpats”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 502
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