Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂ówis

Etymology
Lycian and Tocharian reflexes necessarily point to. However, this noun is usually reconstructed as in order to "account for the Anatolian and Armenian h- and for pervasive o-vocalism, in spite of the Tocharian form, which then remains unexplained" (Lubotsky). Alternatively, acrostatic ablauting ~  paradigm can be reconstructed (such as the one presented here in the declension table), and then one can "assume that the attested forms have the o-vocalism of the former variant, and the h- of the latter" (Lubotsky). Compare with Hebrew and Arabic.

R. A. Pooth argues that the word has the original meaning "one who produces clothing (from wool)". See.

Noun

 * 1)  sheep

Derived terms

 * *h₂ówi-leh₂
 * *h₂owi-keh₂
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos
 * *h₂owi-keh₂
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos
 * *h₂owi-keh₂
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos
 * *h₂owi-gh₂ryos

Descendants
Many languages (Germanic, Tocharian) show a semantic shift from "sheep" (male or female) to "ewe".

In Balto-Slavic, the PIE root was generalized to form both the nouns for sheep and ram via the usual derivative suffixes, but only the sheep sense is listed here for all of them except for Old Prussian in which the sheep word wasn't recorded. See further on the.


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