Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/néh₂us

Etymology
An agent noun originally meaning "swimmer, that which swims" derived from.

Gamkrelidze and Ivanov argue that it is a borrowing from the term from which 🇨🇬 descends and which is of no distinct form to be discerned from its distorted descendants:, , ,.

Noun

 * 1) boat

Declension
The inflection found in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit (*néh₂-u-s ~ *neh₂-w-és) does not correspond to the traditional ablaut patterns of PIE and probably represents a later levelling or reinterpretation. Original paradigms which have been proposed include:

Derived terms

 * Doric Greek:
 * *neh₂w(i)-h₂eǵ-
 * *neh₂w(i)-wedʰ-
 * Middle Iranian:
 * *neh₂w(i)-h₂eǵ-
 * *neh₂w(i)-wedʰ-
 * Middle Iranian:
 * *neh₂w(i)-wedʰ-
 * Middle Iranian:
 * *neh₂w(i)-wedʰ-
 * Middle Iranian:
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Descendants

 * Brythonic:
 * Goidelic:
 * Epic, Ionic Greek:
 * Doric Greek:
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 * Doric Greek:
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