Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ahtōu Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ahtōu

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Indo-European “eight” Václav Blažek Historische Sprachforschung 111 1 209–224 1998 Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11) Guus Kroonen Brill 2013 Indo-European linguistics (Charles Gertmenian, Trans.; in cooperation with Matthias Fritz & Manfred Mayrhofer) Michael Meier-Brügger Walter de Gruyter 2003 The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European roots Calvert Watkins Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011 ὀκτώ eight *h₂eḱ- sharp *oḱtṓw eight अष्टौ eight octō eight ocht eight wyth eight aštuonì eight astoņi eight

numeral eight Traditionally from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw, more fully analyzed as a laryngeal preform such as *h₃eḱt-eh₃u, perhaps an old dual formation meaning ‘two fours’, though this internal analysis remains uncertain Kroonen 2013: 6. Blažek 1998 suggests *h₂oḱtoh₁(w), characterizing it as dual form of o-stem *h₂oḱto-, ultimately from root *h₂eḱ-, meaning ‘a set of points (of one hand)‘ = ‘fingers (without thumb)’. Cognates are Latin octō, Ancient Greek ὀκτώ, Old Irish ocht, Welsh wyth, Sanskrit अष्टौ, Lithuanian aštuonì, and Latvian astoņi Meier-Brügger 2003: 234 Watkins 2011: s.v. oktō(u).