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Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/aliteros

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This Proto-Italic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Italic

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Etymology

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From *aljos (beyond, other) +‎ *-teros (contrastive suffix).

Adjective

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*aliteros[1][2][3]

  1. other (of two)
    Synonym: *eteros

Inflection

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Reconstruction notes

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De Vaan rejects the usual reconstruction *aliteros due to being unable to come up with a morphological basis for the medial -i-, instead reconstructing *alteros.[4]

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Untermann, Jürgen (2000) “O. alttram”, in Wörterbuch des Oskisch-Umbrischen [Dictionary of Oscan-Umbrian] (Handbuch der italischen Dialekte; 3), Heidelberg: Winter, →ISBN, page 82
  2. ^ Weiss, Michael L. (2009) Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin[1], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, page 285
  3. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 40
  4. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “alius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 34