Etymology of the Latin dēbilis
Abstract
In the paper I propose that the Lat. dēbilis is a deverbative from the reconstructed verb of the e-stem *dēhabĕre which might have had a meaning ‘take from, make weaker’. Thus the derived adjective *dēhabilis (→ dēbilis) ‘weak’ might have had a basic meaning ‘someone who is easy to take from’.
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Latin and Indo-European Etymology, history of Latin, Indo-European Linguistics
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2015-12-10
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Filimonov, E. (2015). Etymology of the Latin dēbilis. Philologia Classica, 10, 267–281. Retrieved from https://philclass.spbu.ru/article/view/7613
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