Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/fortis

This Proto-Italic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Italic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰértis, with semantic shift from "load" > "chance, luck".^[1] For the semantic development, compare Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favorable wind”), from the same root.

Noun

*fortis f

luck, chance

Declension

i-stemDeclension of *fortis (i-stem)
case	singular	plural
nominative	*fortis	*fortēs
vocative	*fortis	*fortēs
accusative	*fortim	*fortins
genitive	*forteis	*fortjom
dative	*fortei	*fortiβos
ablative	*fortīd	*fortiβos
locative	*fortei	*fortiβos

Descendants

Latin: fors
Paelignian: forte (gen. sg.) (if not borrowed from Latin)

References

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fors, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 236

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fors, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 236

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