Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/-ā

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ (according to Fellner and Grestenberger, in a non-femininizing individualizing function).^[1]

Suffix

*-ā m

Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases.

Declension

Declension of *-ā (ā-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*-ā	*-ās
vocative	*-a	*-ās
accusative	*-am	*-ans
genitive	*-ās	*-āzom
dative	*-āi	*-ais
ablative	*-ād	*-ais
locative	*-āi	*-ais

Descendants

Latin: -a (agent noun suffix)
Sicel: -α (in εποπασκα^[2])

References

^ Fellner, Hannes, Grestenberger, Laura (2016) “Greek and Latin verbal governing compounds in *-ā and their prehistory”, in Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander and Birgit Anette Olsen, editors, Etymology and the European Lexicon, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag
^ Martzloff, Vincent (2022) “Sicule epopaska et l’inscription du Mendolito (Adrano): aspects institutionnels et phraséologiques [Sicel epopaska and the inscription of Mendolito (Adrano): institutional and phraseological aspects]”, in Alberto Calderini and Riccardo Massarelli, editors, Eqo Duenosio (in French), Perugia: Università degli Studi di Perugia, pages 663-676

[1] Fellner, Hannes, Grestenberger, Laura (2016) “Greek and Latin verbal governing compounds in *-ā and their prehistory”, in Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen, Benedicte Nielsen Whitehead, Thomas Olander and Birgit Anette Olsen, editors, Etymology and the European Lexicon, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag

[2] Martzloff, Vincent (2022) “Sicule epopaska et l’inscription du Mendolito (Adrano): aspects institutionnels et phraséologiques [Sicel epopaska and the inscription of Mendolito (Adrano): institutional and phraseological aspects]”, in Alberto Calderini and Riccardo Massarelli, editors, Eqo Duenosio (in French), Perugia: Università degli Studi di Perugia, pages 663-676

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