User:Doric Loon/PIE Root *reg-

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Contents 1 Description 2 Comments, criticisms and controversies 3 Derivations 3.1 Anatolian 3.1.1 Common Anatolian 3.1.2 Hittite 3.1.3 Other 3.2 Albanian 3.3 Armenian 3.4 Baltic 3.4.1 Western Baltic 3.4.2 Eastern Baltic 3.5 Celtic 3.5.1 Common Celtic 3.5.2 Gaulish 3.5.3 Celtiberian 3.5.4 Goidelic 3.5.5 Brythonic 3.6 Germanic 3.6.1 Common Germanic 3.6.2 Eastern Germanic 3.6.3 Western Germanic 3.6.4 Northern Germanic 3.7 Hellenic 3.8 Indo-Iranian 3.8.1 Common Indo-Iranian 3.8.2 Indo-Aryan 3.8.3 Dardic 3.8.4 Nuristani 3.8.5 Iranian 3.9 Italic 3.9.1 Common Italic 3.9.2 Latin 3.9.3 Romance 3.10 Slavic 3.10.1 Common Slavic 3.10.2 South Slavic 3.10.3 East Slavic 3.10.4 West Slavic 3.11 Tocharian 3.11.1 Tocharian A 3.11.2 Tocharian B 3.12 Other/Unclassified 4 Related Roots 4.1 In meaning 4.2 In appearance

[edit] Description

The Proto-Indo-European root *reg- may have meant 'to straighten out' or 'rule' and is no longer reconstructed as such but rather *H₃reg-.

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[edit] Albanian

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[edit] Baltic

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[edit] Celtic

[edit] Common Celtic

*réks, gen. *régos (King)

[edit] Gaulish

Gaulish -rix (a king), pl. -riges - known from personal names including Vircingetorix

[edit] Celtiberian

[edit] Goidelic

Old Irish rí (a king), Scottish Gaelic righ (right)

[edit] Brythonic

Welsh rhi (a king) - here r is lenited, Breton reizh (right, correct), Cornish ruy (a king), Middle Breton roe

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[edit] Germanic

[edit] Common Germanic

Common Germanic (rich), (realm, empire, kingdom) (Probably from a Celtic source)
Common Germanic (right, correct)

[edit] Eastern Germanic

Gothic raihts (right, correct)

[edit] Western Germanic

English rich, German reich
English bishopric, German Reich
English right -> copyright (widely borrowed), German recht

[edit] Northern Germanic

Old Norse ríkr -> Swedish rik, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian nynorsk rik
Old Norse ríki -> Swedish rike, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian nynorsk rike
Old Norse rettr -> Swedish rätt, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian nynorsk rett

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[edit] Hellenic

Greek orektos (stretched out), réks (a king) - a Middle Greek word borrowed from Latin in the Medieval epoch.

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[edit] Indo-Iranian

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[edit] Indo-Aryan

Sanskrit rājā(king); mahārājāh (great king) (both widely borrowed)

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[edit] Iranian

Avestan raé (wealth, wealthy), raya (rich person) - a supposed word; rástar (a leader)
Persian rahst (right, correct)

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[edit] Italic

[edit] Common Italic

[edit] Latin

Latin rex (king), regere (rule), rectus (straight), directus (from dirigere <- dis-regere, widely borrowed), correctus (from corrigere <- com-regere, widely borrowed)

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Latin directus -> Spanish derecho (rights/ rightward), French droit (rights) Latin rex -> Spanish rey, French roi

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[edit] Tocharian

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[edit] Other/Unclassified

Thracian rhesus, resos, rézos (Eponym meaning king)

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