Proto-Indo-European Roots

Proto-Indo-European Roots

*Root/Stem:*	*ag'-

*Meanings:*	to lead, to bring

*Cognates:*
Hellenic	Greek *agó* 'I lead, I do'
Italic	Latin *agere* 'to lead', Oscan *acum* 'to lead', Umbrian *aitu* 'to make move'
Celtic	Old Irish *ad-aig* 'he brings', Welsh & Cornish & Breton a 'he brings', Gaulish *amb-actus* 'a rider'
Indic	Sanskrit *ajati* 'he makes go'
Iranian	Avestan *azaiti* 'he makes go'
Armenian	Armenian *acen* 'bring!'

Notes:	This root, according to Antoine Meillet, is one of the 'colloquial' Indo-European forms, therefore usinga which was rather rare in Proto-Indo-European. Other linguists often suggest the initial vowel here was the result of mutation of 'laryngeals' H, which occurred already in the Proto-epoch. Anyway, the word reflects the cattle-breeting terminology which could appear only on late stage of the IE development, when hunting was replaced by cattle breeding.