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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/-mh₁nos

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

Alternative reconstructions
  • *-menos, *-mnos

Reconstruction

The -ā- in the Sanskrit descendant is an innovation, from the athematic Proto-Indo-European *-C-m̥h₁no- > Proto-Indo-Iranian *-C-aHno- > Sanskrit -C-āna being remodelled for the thematic paradigm. The Middle Indo-Aryan form -mina reflects the regular outcome of Proto-Indo-Iranian *-mHnas, pointing to the regular form being preserved in an unattested Old Indo-Aryan dialect.

Suffix

*-mh₁nos[1]

  1. Forms the middle participle.

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Proto-Hellenic:
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *-mHnas
    • Proto-Indo-Aryan: *-mHnas
      • Sanskrit: -मान (-māna) (thematic), आन (āna) (athematic) (-ā- in the thematic form is by analogy with the athematic form; the expected thematic form, *-mina, is attested in Middle Indo-Aryan)
        • Maharastri Prakrit: -𑀫𑀺𑀦 (-mina)
        • Pali: -māna
    • Proto-Iranian: *-mHnah
      • Avestan: 𐬨𐬥𐬀 (mna) (thematic), 𐬁𐬥𐬀 (āna) (athematic)
    • Proto-Nuristani: *-mna
      • Northern Nuristani:
        • Kamkata-viri: (< *-nna)
          Kamviri: -në-
          Kativiri: -në-
        • Prasuni: -ma-, -mi- (< *-mma)
  • Proto-Italic: *-manos
    • Latin: -mnus (thematic), -mina (athematic) (only in alumnus, fēmina)
    • Latin: -minī (2pl suffix of deponent verbs)[2]
  • Proto-Tocharian:
    • Tocharian A: -māṃ
    • Tocharian B: -mane

References
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2011) Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd edition, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 114
  2. Baldi, Philip (1999) The Foundations of Latin (Trends in linguistics), Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 391.
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