Difference between revisions of "PIE root *wert-"

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Meaning: 'to turn'<ref>For intransitive meaning, cf. the intransitive active root aorist in Vedic as well as the Latin perfect</ref>
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Meaning: 'to turn' <ref>For intransitive meaning, cf. the intransitive active root aorist in Vedic as well as the Latin perfect</ref>
  
 
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==Reconstructed stems==
 
==Reconstructed stems==
 
===Aorist1a *''wért-/wrt-''===
 
===Aorist1a *''wért-/wrt-''===
Hittite ''anda wartanzi'' 'turn in'<ref>Kloekhorst 2008: 978</ref>
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Hittite ''anda wartanzi'' 'turn in' <ref>Kloekhorst 2008: 978</ref>
  
Vedic ''avart'' 'has turned'<ref>Active root aorist with middle present, synonymous mediopassive root aorist ''varti, avrtran'' (rebuilt to s-Aorist ''avrtsata'') see Narten 1961: 248-9</ref>
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Vedic ''avart'' 'has turned' <ref>Active root aorist with middle present, synonymous mediopassive root aorist ''varti, avrtran'' (rebuilt to s-Aorist ''avrtsata'') see Narten 1961: 248-9</ref>
  
 
===Present5a *''wért-o/e-''===
 
===Present5a *''wért-o/e-''===

Revision as of 13:49, 12 October 2010

Meaning: 'to turn' [1]

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Reconstructed stems

Aorist1a *wért-/wrt-

Hittite anda wartanzi 'turn in' [2]

Vedic avart 'has turned' [3]

Present5a *wért-o/e-

Vedic vártate 'turns'

Latin uertor, uertī 'to turn'

Perfect *we-wórt/wrt-

Vedic vāvárta, vavárta 'turns, has turned'

Old Latin uortī 'turned'

Causative *wort-éjo/e-

Vedic vartáyati 'turns (tr.)'

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Innovations

Aorist2

Greek ἀπό-ερσε 'tore away'

Present4

OCS ob-vrъnǫti sę 'to turn'

Tocharian B wärnāmane 'turning'

Notes

  1. For intransitive meaning, cf. the intransitive active root aorist in Vedic as well as the Latin perfect
  2. Kloekhorst 2008: 978
  3. Active root aorist with middle present, synonymous mediopassive root aorist varti, avrtran (rebuilt to s-Aorist avrtsata) see Narten 1961: 248-9