Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ahslōScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ahslō
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European Prehistory between Celtic and Germanic: The Celto-Germanic Isoglosses Revisited10.1017/9781009261753.018Paulusvan SluisAnders RichardtJørgensenGuusKroonenKristianKristiansenGuusKroonenEskeWillerslevThe Indo-European Puzzle RevisitedCambridge University Press193-24420232026-07-31T23:07:59Zhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781009261753%23CN-bp-13/type/book_partISBN: 978-1-009-26175-3 978-1-009-26174-6 978-1-009-26172-2Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Indo-European and Indo-Iranian wagon terminology and the date of the Indo-Iranian splitAlexanderLubotskyKristianKristiansenGuusKroonenEskeWillerslevThe Indo-European Puzzle Revisited: Integrating Archaeology, Genetics, and LinguisticsCambridgeCambridge University Press257–2622023Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008ἄξωνaxle, axis*-éh₂forms collective nouns and mass nouns, corresponding to thematic formations with accent on the suffix; forms action nouns and abstract nouns*h₂éḱs-axle, axisālawing; armpitaxisaxletree of wagon, car, chariotअक्षaxle, axisaxillaarmpit
nounfeminineō-stemshoulder; shoulder-joint, probably including the adjacent armpit/underarm regionFrom Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-l-éh₂- ~ *h₂eḱs-(i)l-éh₂-, a feminine *-éh₂ derivative of root *h₂éḱs- with an *-l- extension Kroonen 2013: 6. The broader Indo-European family includes Sanskrit अक्ष, Ancient Greek ἄξων, Latin axis, and, with the l-extension/body-part sense, Latin āla and axillade Vaan 2008: 66–67Kroonen 2013: 6Lubotsky 2023: 256–57. Recent discussion of PIE wagon terminology treats the ‘axle’ and ‘armpit/shoulder-joint’ senses as originally identical, with later suffixal and semantic disambiguation across the branches Lubotsky 2023: 257van Sluis et al. 2023: 231.