"gʷey-" meaning in Proto-Indo-European

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Root

  1. to win, to conquer Tags: morpheme, perfective, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-gʷey--ine-pro-root-r3Di1w-5 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Indo-European CeR-shaped roots, Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header, Proto-Indo-European perfective roots, Proto-Indo-European roots Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 100 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 100 0 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European CeR-shaped roots: 100 0 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header: 100 0 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European perfective roots: 100 0 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European roots: 100 0
  2. force Tags: morpheme, perfective, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-gʷey--ine-pro-root-MlANdQDO
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰáyati"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
              "lang_code": "iir-pro",
              "word": "*ǰáyans"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
          "lang_code": "ine-pro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
          ],
          "word": "*gʷéy-o-nt-s"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷéy-e-ti"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jéṣ",
                  "word": "जेष्"
                },
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jitám",
                  "word": "जितम्"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷéy-t ~ *gʷy-ént"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jigā́ya",
                  "word": "जिगाय"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro",
              "word": "*ȷ́igā́ya"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰigā́ya"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷe-gʷóy-e ~ *gʷe-gʷy-ḗr"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Ionic Greek",
                  "lang_code": "grc",
                  "roman": "bĭ́ē",
                  "word": "βῐ́η"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Ancient Greek",
              "lang_code": "grc",
              "roman": "bĭ́ā",
              "word": "βῐ́ᾱ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Hellenic",
          "lang_code": "grk-pro",
          "word": "*gʷiā"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jayá",
                  "sense": "conquering, winning",
                  "word": "जय"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro",
              "word": "*ȷ́áyas"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰáyas"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷey-ós"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jitá",
                  "word": "जित"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro",
              "word": "*ȷ́itás"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰitás"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷi-tós"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʷey-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European CeR-shaped roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European perfective roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to win, to conquer"
      ],
      "id": "en-gʷey--ine-pro-root-r3Di1w-5",
      "links": [
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ],
        [
          "conquer",
          "conquer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "perfective",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "force"
      ],
      "id": "en-gʷey--ine-pro-root-MlANdQDO",
      "links": [
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "perfective",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Helmut Rix",
    "Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben"
  ],
  "word": "gʷey-"
}
{
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    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Indo-European CeR-shaped roots",
    "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
    "Proto-Indo-European perfective roots",
    "Proto-Indo-European roots"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰáyati"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
              "lang_code": "iir-pro",
              "word": "*ǰáyans"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
          "lang_code": "ine-pro",
          "raw_tags": [
            "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
          ],
          "word": "*gʷéy-o-nt-s"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷéy-e-ti"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jéṣ",
                  "word": "जेष्"
                },
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jitám",
                  "word": "जितम्"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷéy-t ~ *gʷy-ént"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jigā́ya",
                  "word": "जिगाय"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro",
              "word": "*ȷ́igā́ya"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰigā́ya"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷe-gʷóy-e ~ *gʷe-gʷy-ḗr"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Ionic Greek",
                  "lang_code": "grc",
                  "roman": "bĭ́ē",
                  "word": "βῐ́η"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Ancient Greek",
              "lang_code": "grc",
              "roman": "bĭ́ā",
              "word": "βῐ́ᾱ"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Hellenic",
          "lang_code": "grk-pro",
          "word": "*gʷiā"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jayá",
                  "sense": "conquering, winning",
                  "word": "जय"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro",
              "word": "*ȷ́áyas"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰáyas"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷey-ós"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "Sanskrit",
                  "lang_code": "sa",
                  "roman": "jitá",
                  "word": "जित"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Proto-Indo-Aryan",
              "lang_code": "inc-pro",
              "word": "*ȷ́itás"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
          "lang_code": "iir-pro",
          "word": "*ǰitás"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "unknown",
      "lang_code": "ine-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "derived"
      ],
      "word": "*gʷi-tós"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/gʷey-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to win, to conquer"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ],
        [
          "conquer",
          "conquer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "perfective",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "force"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "perfective",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Helmut Rix",
    "Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben"
  ],
  "word": "gʷey-"
}

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