- ĝhesto-2
- ĝhesto-2English meaning: hand, armDeutsche Übersetzung: “Hand, Arm”Note: Both Root ĝhesor-1, ĝhesr- : “hand” and Root ĝhesto-2 : “hand, arm” derived from an extended archaic root ĝhes + reduced form of the common PIE suffix variants -tar, -ter, -tra, -tre.Material: O.Ind. hásta-ḥ m. “hand”, Av. zasta-, O.Pers. dasta- ds.; Lat. praestō “zur hand” from *prae-hestod (EM 805f.)?; different see under stü-; Lith. pa-žaste ̃ , pa-žastì s f. “ place under the arm, armpit “.Note: common Balt-Illyr. ĝh- > z phonetic mutatIon. Da Arm. jeṙn also auf *ĝher-m̥ go back could and also die Gk. forms better from *ĝher-s expounded become can, da further Alb. dorë f. “hand”, pl. konson. duar eine basic form *ĝhēr- required (ĝhēsr- hätte *dostrë ergeben), wäre with Belardi (Riv. Studi Orient. 23, 69 ff.) to consider, if not for the Hitt. and Toch. metathesis from -rs- to -sr- anzunehmen sei, and die group 1 from 2 to separate and to ĝher- “ grasp “ to stellen sei.References: WP. I 541, 603, WH. I 243, Trautmann 367, Duchesne-Guillemin BAL.-SLAV. 39, 211, Schwyzer Gk. I 446, 569, Specht IE Decl. 75.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.