*ḱh₂d-es-
a proposed formation connecting grief, pain, care, mourning, and hatred words
- SOUND
- Under the proposed comparison, Grimm’s Law maps Indo-European *ḱ to Germanic h and *d to Germanic t, while the suffixal formation is remodeled as the Germanic i-stem.
- MEANING
- A proposed grief, pain, care, or hatred formation narrows or develops into the Germanic hate and enmity family.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Proto-Indo-European proposal to Proto-Germanic reconstruction.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Anatoly Liberman
- CONFIDENCE
- probable — Merriam-Webster says “perhaps” and calls the semantic relations far from transparent; Liberman argues that several proposed non-Germanic cognates may not belong together.
Publishes the formal proposal while flagging semantic opacity.
ORIGINAL ↗Warns that phonetic candidates need not all belong together.
ORIGINAL ↗Publishes a wider affirmative comparison that remains visibly qualified by competing scholarship.
ORIGINAL ↗Publishes an additional inherited comparison while labeling the database under active construction.
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