"pnew-" meaning in Proto-Indo-European

See pnew- in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Root

Etymology: Likely onomatopoeic. Etymology templates: {{etymon|ine-pro|id=breathe|pos=root}}, {{onomatopoeic|ine-pro|nocap=1}} onomatopoeic
  1. to breathe, gasp Tags: morpheme, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-pnew--ine-pro-root-eaUisSPu
  2. to snort, sneeze Tags: morpheme, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-pnew--ine-pro-root-LerMnTr1 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Indo-European CReR-shape roots, Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header, Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeias, Proto-Indo-European roots Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 40 60 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 23 77 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European CReR-shape roots: 17 83 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeias: 3 97 Disambiguation of Proto-Indo-European roots: 3 97
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnéw-e-ti (thematic root present)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grk-pro",
            "alt": "*pnéwō"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnéwō",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnéwō"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grc",
            "2": "πνέω",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Ancient Greek: πνέω (pnéō), πνείω (pneíō) — poetic",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: πνέω (pnéō), πνείω (pneíō) — poetic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnéw-se-ti ((h₁)se-desiderative)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*fneusaną"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Germanic: *fneusaną",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Germanic: *fneusaną (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*fnuzzōną",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Proto-Germanic: *fnuzzōną",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Proto-Germanic: *fnuzzōną"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmh",
            "2": "pfnurren"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle High German: pfnurren",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle High German: pfnurren"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "hnerra"
          },
          "expansion": "Icelandic: hnerra",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Icelandic: hnerra"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*hneusaną",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Proto-Germanic: *hneusaną",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Proto-Germanic: *hneusaną (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnḗw-s-t ~ *pnéw-s-n̥t (s-aorist)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grk-pro",
            "alt": "*pnḗwhe"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnḗwhe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnḗwhe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grc",
            "2": "ἔπνευσε"
          },
          "expansion": "Ancient Greek: ἔπνευσε (épneuse)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: ἔπνευσε (épneuse)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnéw-mn̥"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Unsorted formations:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Albanian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sqj-pro",
            "alt": "*pnewa",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Proto-Albanian: *pnewa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Proto-Albanian: *pnewa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "alt": "*pnyj"
          },
          "expansion": "Albanian: *pnyj",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Albanian: *pnyj"
    },
    {
      "depth": 5,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "fryj"
          },
          "expansion": "Albanian: fryj",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "< earlier *fnyj"
          },
          "expansion": "(< earlier *fnyj)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Albanian: fryj (< earlier *fnyj)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "iir-pro",
            "2": "*kšnauš"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian: *kšnauš",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Indo-Iranian: *kšnauš"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Indo-Aryan:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sa",
            "2": "क्षवः",
            "t": "sneezing"
          },
          "expansion": "Sanskrit: क्षवः (kṣavaḥ, “sneezing”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sanskrit: क्षवः (kṣavaḥ, “sneezing”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ira-pro",
            "2": "*xšnauš"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Iranian: *xšnauš",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Iranian: *xšnauš"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mzn",
            "2": "اشنافه",
            "t": "sneeze",
            "tr": "ëšnâfe"
          },
          "expansion": "Mazanderani: اشنافه (ëšnâfe, “sneeze”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mazanderani: اشنافه (ëšnâfe, “sneeze”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kurdish:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "kmr",
            "2": "hênijîn",
            "t": "to sneeze"
          },
          "expansion": "Northern Kurdish: hênijîn (“to sneeze”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Northern Kurdish: hênijîn (“to sneeze”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pal",
            "2": "-",
            "t": "sneeze",
            "ts": "šnōšag⁠"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Persian: (/⁠šnōšag⁠⁠/, “sneeze”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Persian: (/⁠šnōšag⁠⁠/, “sneeze”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pal",
            "sc": "Phlv",
            "sclb": "1",
            "tr": "šnwšk'"
          },
          "expansion": "Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (šnwšk')",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (šnwšk')"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "id": "breathe",
        "pos": "root"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "onomatopoeic",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Likely onomatopoeic.",
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pnew-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to breathe, gasp"
      ],
      "id": "en-pnew--ine-pro-root-eaUisSPu",
      "links": [
        [
          "breathe",
          "breathe"
        ],
        [
          "gasp",
          "gasp"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European CReR-shape roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeias",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 97",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European roots",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to snort, sneeze"
      ],
      "id": "en-pnew--ine-pro-root-LerMnTr1",
      "links": [
        [
          "snort",
          "snort"
        ],
        [
          "sneeze",
          "sneeze"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Brill Publishers",
    "Helmut Rix",
    "Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben"
  ],
  "word": "pnew-"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Indo-European CReR-shape roots",
    "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
    "Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeias",
    "Proto-Indo-European roots"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnéw-e-ti (thematic root present)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grk-pro",
            "alt": "*pnéwō"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnéwō",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnéwō"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grc",
            "2": "πνέω",
            "alts": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "Ancient Greek: πνέω (pnéō), πνείω (pneíō) — poetic",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: πνέω (pnéō), πνείω (pneíō) — poetic"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnéw-se-ti ((h₁)se-desiderative)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*fneusaną"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Germanic: *fneusaną",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Germanic: *fneusaną (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*fnuzzōną",
            "der": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "⇒ Proto-Germanic: *fnuzzōną",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "⇒ Proto-Germanic: *fnuzzōną"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmh",
            "2": "pfnurren"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle High German: pfnurren",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle High German: pfnurren"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "is",
            "2": "hnerra"
          },
          "expansion": "Icelandic: hnerra",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Icelandic: hnerra"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gem-pro",
            "2": "*hneusaną",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Proto-Germanic: *hneusaną",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Proto-Germanic: *hneusaną (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnḗw-s-t ~ *pnéw-s-n̥t (s-aorist)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grk-pro",
            "alt": "*pnḗwhe"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnḗwhe",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Hellenic: *pnḗwhe"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "grc",
            "2": "ἔπνευσε"
          },
          "expansion": "Ancient Greek: ἔπνευσε (épneuse)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Ancient Greek: ἔπνευσε (épneuse)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "*pnéw-mn̥"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Unsorted formations:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Albanian:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sqj-pro",
            "alt": "*pnewa",
            "unc": "1"
          },
          "expansion": ">? Proto-Albanian: *pnewa",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": ">? Proto-Albanian: *pnewa"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "alt": "*pnyj"
          },
          "expansion": "Albanian: *pnyj",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Albanian: *pnyj"
    },
    {
      "depth": 5,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
            "2": "fryj"
          },
          "expansion": "Albanian: fryj",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "< earlier *fnyj"
          },
          "expansion": "(< earlier *fnyj)",
          "name": "q"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Albanian: fryj (< earlier *fnyj)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "iir-pro",
            "2": "*kšnauš"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Indo-Iranian: *kšnauš",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Indo-Iranian: *kšnauš"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Indo-Aryan:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sa",
            "2": "क्षवः",
            "t": "sneezing"
          },
          "expansion": "Sanskrit: क्षवः (kṣavaḥ, “sneezing”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sanskrit: क्षवः (kṣavaḥ, “sneezing”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 3,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ira-pro",
            "2": "*xšnauš"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-Iranian: *xšnauš",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-Iranian: *xšnauš"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mzn",
            "2": "اشنافه",
            "t": "sneeze",
            "tr": "ëšnâfe"
          },
          "expansion": "Mazanderani: اشنافه (ëšnâfe, “sneeze”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mazanderani: اشنافه (ëšnâfe, “sneeze”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [],
      "text": "Kurdish:"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "kmr",
            "2": "hênijîn",
            "t": "to sneeze"
          },
          "expansion": "Northern Kurdish: hênijîn (“to sneeze”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Northern Kurdish: hênijîn (“to sneeze”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pal",
            "2": "-",
            "t": "sneeze",
            "ts": "šnōšag⁠"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle Persian: (/⁠šnōšag⁠⁠/, “sneeze”)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle Persian: (/⁠šnōšag⁠⁠/, “sneeze”)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 4,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pal",
            "sc": "Phlv",
            "sclb": "1",
            "tr": "šnwšk'"
          },
          "expansion": "Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (šnwšk')",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Book Pahlavi script: [Book Pahlavi needed] (šnwšk')"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "id": "breathe",
        "pos": "root"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "onomatopoeic",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Likely onomatopoeic.",
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pnew-",
  "pos": "root",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "ine-pro:Air",
        "ine-pro:Bodily functions"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to breathe, gasp"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "breathe",
          "breathe"
        ],
        [
          "gasp",
          "gasp"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to snort, sneeze"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "snort",
          "snort"
        ],
        [
          "sneeze",
          "sneeze"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Brill Publishers",
    "Helmut Rix",
    "Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben"
  ],
  "word": "pnew-"
}

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