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This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Etymology

The *a vowel is reconstructed on the basis of Ancient Greek κέκᾰδον (kékădon), where *ḱh₂e- should have yielded χᾰ- (khă-) due to laryingeal aspiration.^[1] Speculative links have been made to *keh₂d- (“hatred, angriness”).^[2]

Root

*ḱad-Category:Proto-Indo-European lemmas#KAAD-Category:Proto-Indo-European roots#KAAD-Category:Proto-Indo-European irregularly shaped roots#KAAD-Category:Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header#KAAD-Category:Pages with entries#ḰAD-Category:Pages with 1 entry#ḰAD-^[1]

to fall

Alternative reconstructions

*ḱh₂d-^[3]
*ḱh₂ed-^[1]

Derived terms

Category Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱad- not found

*ḱád-e-ti (thematic present)^[1]
- Proto-Italic: *kadō
  - Latin: cadō
*ḱad-tó-s
- Proto-Celtic: *kassos, ⇒ *kassarā (+ *-rā)^[2]
  - Old Irish: casar
  - Proto-Brythonic:
    - Breton: kazerc'h
    - Cornish: keser
    - Middle Welsh: kesseir
      - Welsh: cesair
>? *ḱad-yó-s
- Old Armenian: ցած (cʻac)
  - Armenian: ցած (cʻac), ցածր (cʻacr)
>? *ḱe-ḱód-ti (reduplicated perfect)^[1]
- Proto-Indo-Iranian:
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan:
    - Sanskrit: शशाद (śaśāda)
- Proto-Italic: *kekadai
  - Latin: cecidī

References

1 2 3 4 5 Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*ḱad-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 318
1 2 Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*kassarā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 193
↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cadō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 78