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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/wōks

This Proto-Italic 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-Italic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs (“speech, voice”), an o-grade root noun of *wekʷ- (“to speak”). The vowel was changed from kʷ to simply a k; a more logical descendent of *wṓkʷs would have had something like wokʷos or *wṓkʷos, which would logically give Latin vox the base voqu- or vōqu-.

Noun

*wōks f[1]

  1. voice

Declension
consonant stemDeclension of *wōks (consonant stem)
case singular plural
nominative *wōks *wokes
vocative *wōks *wokes
accusative *wokem *wokens
genitive *wokes, wokos *wokom
dative *wokei *wokəβos
ablative *woki? woke? *wokəβos
locative *woki? woke? *wokəβos

Descendants
  • Latin: vōx, vocō (either a denominative from the oblique stem *wokʷ- or from an intermediate derivative *wokʷ-ā < *wokʷ-eh₂)
  • Umbrian: 𐌔𐌖𐌁𐌏𐌂𐌏 (suboco, “invocation”) (< *sub-wok-(o-)); 𐌔𐌖𐌁𐌏𐌂𐌀𐌖𐌖 (subocauu), 𐌔𐌖𐌁𐌏𐌂𐌀𐌖 (subocau, “I invoke”) (< *sub-wok-ā-je-)

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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