Latin 'umbra' and its Proto-Indo-European Origins

• Autores: Ranko Matasovic
• Localización: Glotta: zeitschrift für griechische und lateinische sprache..., ISSN 0017-1298, Nº. 97, 2021, págs. 178-183
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper we derive Lat. umbra ‘shadow, shade’ from PIE *undhreh2, the zero-grade of the root *(s)wendh- ‘fade, wither’ (PSl. *ǫditi ‘smoke’, PSl. *vędnǫti ‘wither, fade’, PGerm. *swend-a- ‘fade, wither’). Lith. ùnksna ‘shade’ is also regularly derivable from this root (from PIE *undh-sn- with the common epenthesis of *-k- before *s), and Skt. vandhyā- ‘barren, sterile woman’ is probably from *wendhyeh2 with the change of meaning from ‘withered’ to ‘barren, sterile’.