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CHILD / LATER FORM / reconstructedProto-Indo-European · Proto-Indo-European adjectival formation, proposed · true adjective

*set-eu-o-

having or containing true order; real

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DESCENDS FROM→

PARENT / EARLIER FORM / reconstructedProto-Indo-European · prehistoric

*set-u-

true; real; in true order

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THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP

EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE

SOUND CHANGE

The proposed possessive adjective *set-eu-o- is analyzed from a *set-u- or *steu- base.

SEMANTIC CHANGE

The base notion of true order becomes “having true order; real.”

CHRONOLOGY

No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.

SCHOLAR / EDITORIAL AUTHORITY

Martin Gális · Robert Beekes

CONFIDENCE

proposed — The exact ablaut and suffixal analysis remain debated.

EDITORIAL STATUS

reviewed

CITATION REGISTER

SOURCES ON THIS EDGE

S01

Etymological Dictionary of Greeks.v. ἐτεός

Publishes the u-stem analysis while keeping deeper analysis uncertain.

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S02

Mycenae, Troy and Anatolia: Mycenaean Names in Hittite Documents, and Anatolian Names in the Homeric IliadEteocles etymology: *set-eu-o- from *sét-u- or *steu-

Documents the proposed base and derivation.

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EDITORIAL REUSE

WHERE THIS CLAIM APPEARS

RELATION / 515ἐτεός

*set-eu-o- → *set-u-

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