"kʷért" meaning in Proto-Indo-European

See kʷért in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: Athematic root aorist of *kʷer- (“to do, make”). Etymology templates: {{root|ine-pro|ine-pro|*kʷer-}} Head templates: {{head|ine-pro|verb|perfective||cat2=perfective verbs|head=}} *kʷért (perfective) Inflection templates: {{ine-conj-pf|kʷér|kʷr̥|v=actv}} Forms: perfective [table-tags], kʷérm̥ [first-person, indicative, singular], - [first-person, imperative, singular], kʷéroh₂ [first-person, singular, subjunctive], kʷr̥yéh₁m̥ [first-person, optative, singular], kʷérs [indicative, second-person, singular], kʷér [imperative, second-person, singular], kʷr̥dʰí [imperative, second-person, singular], kʷéresi [second-person, singular, subjunctive], kʷr̥yéh₁s [optative, second-person, singular], kʷért [indicative, singular, third-person], kʷértu [imperative, singular, third-person], kʷéreti [singular, subjunctive, third-person], kʷr̥yéh₁t [optative, singular, third-person], kʷr̥wé [dual, first-person, indicative], - [dual, first-person, imperative], kʷérowos [dual, first-person, subjunctive], kʷrih₁wé [dual, first-person, optative], kʷr̥tóm [dual, indicative, second-person], kʷr̥tóm [dual, imperative, second-person], kʷéretes [dual, second-person, subjunctive], kʷrih₁tóm [dual, optative, second-person], kʷr̥tā́m [dual, indicative, third-person], kʷr̥tā́m [dual, imperative, third-person], kʷéretes [dual, subjunctive, third-person], kʷrih₁tā́m [dual, optative, third-person], kʷr̥mé [first-person, indicative, plural], - [first-person, imperative, plural], kʷéromos [first-person, plural, subjunctive], kʷrih₁mé [first-person, optative, plural], kʷr̥té [indicative, plural, second-person], kʷr̥té [imperative, plural, second-person], kʷérete [plural, second-person, subjunctive], kʷrih₁té [optative, plural, second-person], kʷrént [indicative, plural, third-person], kʷréntu [imperative, plural, third-person], kʷéronti [plural, subjunctive, third-person], kʷrih₁ént [optative, plural, third-person], kʷrónts [indicative, participle]
  1. to do, make, build Tags: perfective, reconstruction
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          "lang_code": "hit",
          "roman": "ku-er-mi",
          "word": "𒆪𒅕𒈪"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Hittite",
          "lang_code": "hit",
          "roman": "ku-e-er-zi",
          "sense": "to cut, to cut up, to cut off",
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          "lang_code": "hit",
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          "lang": "Old Prussian",
          "lang_code": "prg",
          "sense": "he built",
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          "word": "peri"
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      ]
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        "second-person"
      ]
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        "third-person"
      ]
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        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
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        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
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        "optative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
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        "participle"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kʷért",
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        {
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        "subjunctive"
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        "third-person"
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        "third-person"
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        "third-person"
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        "subjunctive"
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      "form": "kʷr̥tóm",
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        "indicative",
        "second-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "kʷr̥tóm",
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      "tags": [
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        "imperative",
        "second-person"
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        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
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    {
      "form": "kʷrih₁tóm",
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        "second-person"
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    {
      "form": "kʷr̥tā́m",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "indicative",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷr̥tā́m",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "imperative",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrih₁tā́m",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "optative",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷr̥mé",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "indicative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "imperative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷéromos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrih₁mé",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "optative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷr̥té",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷr̥té",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷérete",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "second-person",
        "subjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrih₁té",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "optative",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrént",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷréntu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷéronti",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "subjunctive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrih₁ént",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "optative",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kʷrónts",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "verb",
        "3": "perfective",
        "4": "",
        "cat2": "perfective verbs",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "*kʷért (perfective)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kʷér",
        "2": "kʷr̥",
        "v": "actv"
      },
      "name": "ine-conj-pf"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kʷért",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
        "Proto-Indo-European perfective verbs",
        "Proto-Indo-European root athematic aorist verbs",
        "Proto-Indo-European terms belonging to the root *kʷer-",
        "Proto-Indo-European verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to do, make, build"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "make",
          "make"
        ],
        [
          "build",
          "build"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "perfective",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kʷért"
}

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