Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ambôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ambô
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Etymological 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LinguisticsCambridgeCambridge University Press257–2622023Revisiting Proto-Indo-European SchwebeablautKasparsOzoliņš2015(Unpublished dissertation,Nomina im indogermanischen LexikonDagmar S.WodtkoBrittaIrslingerCarolinSchneiderUniversitätsverlag Winter2008Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008*h₃nebʰ-navel, hubumbōboss (of a shield), elbowὀμφαλόςnavel; center; shield bossनाभिnave, navel; centernabisnave, navelambonabdomen
nounmasculinean-stembelly, abdomenProbably from Proto-Indo-European *h₃émbʰ-ō ~ *h₃m̥bʰ-nés, an n-stem formation belonging to root *h₃nebʰ-, with the *amb- traditionally explained as a Schwebeablaut/metathesized variant of *h₃nebʰ-de Vaan 2008: 639Kroonen 2013: 24Wodtko et al. 2008: s.v. h₃nebʰ-. The closest cognate is Latin umbō, which continues the same n-stem; compare also Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός, Sanskrit नाभि, and Old Prussian nabis from the same root. The root also underlies *nabō ( < *h₃nobʰ-eh₂) and *nabalô, both from o-grade versions of the same PIE root Lubotsky 2023: 257.The PIE-level Schwebeablaut analysis is not certain: Ozoliņš 2015: 79–83 argues that the association of Old Saxon ambon with the *h₃nebʰ- family is itself not beyond doubt and that, if the etymology is accepted, the amb- shape could instead reflect Germanic analogical remodeling of an inherited ablauting n-stem. He nevertheless regards Latin umbō as the preferable direct comparison and notes that the semantic development ‘navel’ > ‘belly, abdomen’ is straightforward.