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Latin umbra and its Proto-Indo-European Origins

In this paper we derive Lat. umbra ‘shadow, shade’ from PIE *undhreh2, the zero-grade of the root * (s)wendh- ‘fade, wither’ (PSl. *ǫditi ‘smoke’, PSl. *vędnǫti ‘wither, fade’, PGerm. *swend-a- ‘fade, wither’). Lith. ùnksna ‘shade’ is also regularly derivable from this root (from PIE *undh-sn- with the common epenthesis of *-k- before *s), and Skt. vandhyā- ‘barren, sterile woman’ is probably from *wendhyeh2 with the change of meaning from ‘withered’ to ‘barren, sterile’.

umbra ; Latin Etymology ; Indo-European

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