Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/suH-

Etymology
Has been suggested to derive from if the original meaning was “sow”.

Possibly related to 🇨🇬 (Old Babylonian šahû), which may be an Indo-European borrowing, as well as 🇨🇬, and.

Noun

 * 1)  pig, hog, swine

Inflection
Possibly:

Reconstruction notes

 * It is conspicuous that the root only occurs in the zero-grade.
 * Descendants in several branches, including at least Germanic *sugō and Celtic and their descendants, show no trace of the laryngeal where it would be expected, while these two also show a suffix with a velar stop.  There are several potential explanations for these forms, but currently little consensus; Kroonen explains the *-g- of the former as resulting from inner-Germanic sound laws that occurred independently in North and West Germanic from the original accusative . See more at  and.

Derived terms



 * *suH-kó-


 * Unsorted formations: