Where words came from: "word", "verb", "verbal"


For the first post, let's start with the title of the blog

[Proto-Indo-European]

*werdʰh₁om (word)
It is probably related to:
*werh₁- (to speak)
It has evolved into the following words:

[Italic]

Latin: verbum (word, verb)
This evolved into:
      • English: verb, verbal
      • French: la verve (eloquence), le verbe (speech, verb)
      • Spanish: el verbo (verb)
      • Italian: il verbo (verb)
      • Portuguese: o verbo (verb)
      • Swedish: ett verb (verb)

          [Germanic]

          Proto-Germanic: *wurdą (word)
          This evolved into:
          • English: word
          • Dutch: het woord (word)
          • German: das Wort (word)
          • Swedish: ett ord (word) 

          References:

          1. Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “Wort”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, ISBN 3-11-006800-1
          2. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*u̯erh₁-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, ISBN 3-89500-219-4, pages 689-690
          3. Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008), “u̯er(ii̯e/a)-zi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978-90-04-16092-7, pages 1159-1160
          Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed this article.
           

          Comments