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Proto-Italic · reconstructed language

*e(s)peso

pron

Meaning

  1. himself, herself, itself

Etymology / origin

A compound pronoun from *h₁e + *só. Joining the two pronominal elements is either a particle *-pe (according to De Vaan) or a secondary epenthetic -p- that originally arose when -m-final endings of the first element came into contact with the initial *s of the second element.

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