Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/legʰ-

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/leǵ-

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

Root

*legʰ-^[1]

to lie (to be in resting position)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *legʰ- (27 c, 0 e)

*légʰ-e-ti (root present)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *légtei (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Celtic: *legeti (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *lékʰomai
  - Ancient Greek: λέχομαι (lékhomai)
- Proto-Italic: *leɣō (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Tocharian:
  - Tocharian B: lyäk- (“to lie (down)”, v.it.)^[2]
*legʰ-sḱé-ti^[3]
- Proto-Germanic: *leskaną
*légʰ-ye-ti (ye-present)
*logʰ-éye-ti (causative)
*légʰ-s (root noun)
- Proto-Tocharian: *li̯äk (“thief”)^[4]
  - Tocharian A: lyäk
  - Tocharian B: lyak
    - ⇒ Tocharian B: lykuññe (“thief”, adj.)
*lógʰ-o-s
*légʰ-os ~ *légʰ-es-os
- Proto-Hellenic: *lékʰos
  - Ancient Greek: λέχος (lékhos)
*legʰ-ro-m
- Proto-Germanic: *legrą (see there for further descendants)
*legʰ-to-s
- Proto-Italic: *lektos
  - Faliscan: lēta (“bed”)
  - Latin: lectus (“bed”) (see there for further descendants)
*légʰ-tro-m
- Proto-Germanic: *lehtrą (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic: *léktron
  - Ancient Greek: λέκτρον (léktron)
    - Greek: λέκτρο (léktro)
*legʰ-yo-m
- Proto-Celtic: *legyom
  - Old Irish: lige
    - Irish: luí
  - ⇒ Proto-Celtic: *uɸo-legyom
    - Proto-Brythonic:
      - Old Breton: gueli
        Middle Breton: guele
        Breton: gwele
      - Old Welsh: gueli
        Welsh: gwely
      - → Irish: golighe (obsolete)
*legʰ-yeh₂
- Proto-Celtic: *legyā
  - Gaulish: *legā, *ligā
    - → Latin: Liger
      - → Old English: Ligeraceaster
        English: Leicester
      - French: Loire
      - Medieval Latin: lias
        Old French: lies
*logʰ-yo-m
- Proto-Slavic: *lože (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted formations:

Balto-Slavic:
- Old Prussian: lasto (< *logʰ-sth₂-eh₂?)
Proto-Germanic: *lēgaz (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Germanic: *lōgą (see there for further descendants)
Tocharian:
- Tocharian B: lest
- Tocharian B: lesto
Tocharian: (< *lēgʰ-^[5])
- Tocharian A: lyāk
- Tocharian B: lyāk (possibly borrowed from Tocharian A)
Tocharian:
- Tocharian B: *lyśalyñe
  - ⇒ Tocharian B: lyśalyñeṣṣe

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “lyäk-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 615
^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “löschen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “lyak”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 613
^ Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “lyāk”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 615

Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[2] Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “lyäk-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 615

[3] Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “löschen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN

[4] Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “lyak”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 613

[5] Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “lyāk”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 615

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