Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/ōrāō

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 Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-, related to Attic Greek ἀρά (ará, prayer), and Sanskrit आर्यन्ति (āryanti, praise). There may have been a base root noun *ōr this verb was built upon.[1]

Verb

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*ōrāō

  1. to orate, announce
  2. to pray

Conjugation

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Inflection of *ōrāō (first conjugation)
Present *ōrāō
Perfect
Aorist
Past participle *ōrātos
Present indicative Active Passive
1st sing. *ōrāō *ōrāōr
2nd sing. *ōrās *ōrāzo
3rd sing. *ōrāt *ōrātor
1st plur. *ōrāmos *ōrāmor
2nd plur. *ōrātes *ōrām(e?)n(ai?)
3rd plur. *ōrānt *ōrāntor
Present subjunctive Active Passive
1st sing. *ōrāēm? *ōrāēr?
2nd sing. *ōrāēs? *ōrāēzo?
3rd sing. *ōrāēd? *ōrāētor?
1st plur. *ōrāēmos? *ōrāēmor?
2nd plur. *ōrāētes? *ōrāēm(e?)n(ai?)?
3rd plur. *ōrāēnd? *ōrāēntor?
Perfect indicative Active
1st sing.
2nd sing.
3rd sing.
1st plur.
2nd plur.
3rd plur.
Aorist indicative Active
1st sing.
2nd sing.
3rd sing.
1st plur.
2nd plur.
3rd plur.
Present imperative Active Passive
2nd sing. *ōrā *ōrāzo
2nd plur. *ōrāte
Future imperative Active
2nd + 3rd sing. *ōrātōd
Participles Present Past
*ōrānts *ōrātos
Verbal nouns tu-derivative s-derivative
*ōrātum *ōrāzi

Reconstructed

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  • Oscan urust is usually explained as derived via a reduplicated perfect which was weak-suppletively attached to this 1st-conjugation verb.[2]
  • Faliscan 𐌖𐌓𐌀𐌕𐌄 (urate) is connected here by Pisani; the identification as a simple imperative of this denominative verb is due to Bakkum.[3]
  • Connecting Latin ōrō to here is quite popular nowadays, accepted by Schrijver,[4] Kümmel,[2] Rix and Zair;[1] but De Vaan rejects this in favour of a derivation from ōs (mouth) (which cannot yield the Oscan form since Oscan did not undergo rhotacism).[5]

Descendants

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  • Latino-Faliscan:
    • Latin: ōrō (see there for further descendants)
    • Faliscan: 𐌖𐌓𐌀𐌕𐌄 (urate, 2pl. imp.) (if not Etruscan)
  • Sabellic:
    • Oscan: urust (3sg. fut. perf.)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 McDonald, Katherine, Zair, Nicholas (2012) “Oscan ϝουρουστ and the Roccagloriosa law tablet”, in Incontri Linguistici, volume 35, page 34
  2. 2.0 2.1 Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 271
  3. ^ Bakkum, Gabriël C.L.M. (2009) The Latin dialect of the Ager Faliscus: 150 years of scholarship, Amsterdam University Press, page 172
  4. ^ 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 34
  5. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 435-436
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