NODE / 0591reconstructedProto-Indo-European
*set-eu-o-
TRANSLITERATION *set-eu-o-
having or containing true order; real
- DATE
- Proto-Indo-European adjectival formation, proposed
- SENSE
- true adjective
- FAMILY
- Indo-European
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:6:set-eu-o:reconstructed:sense:true-adjective
Gális summarizes this possessive-adjective analysis and its proposed Greek phonological development.
*This form is reconstructed by comparison. It is not directly attested in this exact written form.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERderivationproposed
Proto-Indo-European · prehistoric*set-u-
true; real; in true order
- SOUND
- The proposed possessive adjective *set-eu-o- is analyzed from a *set-u- or *steu- base.
- MEANING
- The base notion of true order becomes “having true order; real.”
- SCHOLAR
- Martin Gális · Robert Beekes
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed — The exact ablaut and suffixal analysis remain debated.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTinheritanceproposed
Ancient Greek · Homeric and later Ancient Greek · true adjectiveἐτεός
in accordance with truth; true; really
- SOUND
- The proposed path from *set-eu-o- to Greek ἐτεός includes loss of the inherited initial sibilant; Gális discusses psilosis and only tentatively raises contact as an explanation.
- MEANING
- A possessive true-order adjective yields the attested senses true and really.
- SCHOLAR
- Martin Gális · Robert Beekes
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed — The preform and phonological account are scholarly reconstructions, not written stages.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01inheritanceproposed
- SOUND
- The proposed path from *set-eu-o- to Greek ἐτεός includes loss of the inherited initial sibilant; Gális discusses psilosis and only tentatively raises contact as an explanation.
- MEANING
- A possessive true-order adjective yields the attested senses true and really.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.That is expected for a reconstructed form: the node is inferred from comparison, not quoted from a surviving occurrence.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE