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Asturian yo, Portuguse eu, Galician eu, Catalan jo, French je, Italian io, Aromanian io, Romanian eu, Sardinian eo
Indubitably, the word is especially ancient in Proto-Indo-European, at one point even labelled a "Devonion rock" of the language by Benjamin Fortson (2011). Because of its extreme age, the semantic sense of *h1eǵ- and its many suffixes (Latin points to *-(o)H; Sanskrit to *-om; Germanic *-Hom; and Hittite to a word without a suffix) have inspired significant discussion (see Sihler 2008). |