*p-t- “lord, mistress”
PMA pati/patni “husband/wife” Sanskrit pati “lord” Sanskrit patti “wife” Prakit SIG, IESSG, VISW *b-y- pre-IndoEuropean-Semitic *po- Proto-IndoEuropean extended with -w- *pou- (2nd normal form) Proto-IndoEuropean *pò:n- pán “lord” Czech pan “lord” Polish dés-poina “mistress of the house, female ruler” Greek extended with -d- > PIE -t- *bayad- Proto-IndoEuropean *pot- (2nd normal form) Proto-IndoEuropean páti- “master of the house” Sanskrit pósis “master of the house” Greek bru:þ-faþs “bridegroom” Gothic -faþs “master” Gothic potis “able” Latin com-pos “in possession, control of” Latin im-pos “not in possession, control of” Latin pátni: “mistress of the house” Sanskrit pótnia “mistress of the house” Greek *b-y- Semitic extended with originally suffixal -l- (< -n- after labial -b- < PIE -n-?) baylun “husband, lord, master” Arabic be:lu “master, possessor” Assyrian inf. “take into possession” Assyrian bàyal “lord, owner, spouse” Hebrew ba:yl, baya:l “master, possessor” Ethiopian bayala “he married, became a husband” Arabic bayalat “she became a wife” Arabic EIEC *pótis “husband” Proto-IndoEuropean *potis stegesos ozah “husband, master of the house” Breton *ghos(t)-pot- hospe:s “host” Latin bruþ-faþ-s “bridegroom” Gothic gospódî “host” Russian fat “husband” Albanian pats “husband, self” Lithuanian pats “master of the house, self” Latvian *wisá: + *pot- > *dzhopt- zot “master of the house” Albanian pósis “husband” Greek pat “self” Hittite paiti- “husband” Avestan páti- “husband, master” Sanskrit pats “husband” TokharianA petso “husband” TokharianB *pot-niH2 “mistress, lady” waispattin (acc.) “wife, mistress” Old Prussian vieshpatni “lady” Lithuanian po-ti-ni-ja “lady, wife, mistress” Mycenian Greek pótnia “lady, wife” Greek *wisa: + *potnja: > *doptnja: zonjë “lady, wife” Albanian -pathna:- “lady” Avestan pátni- “lady, wife” Sanskrit AE: páta “have, possess” Albanian PMA bati, baati “husband” Tairora patu, fatu “lord” Polynesia patuan “chief” Bismarck Archipelago patan “wife, woman” Iarkei, Loniel pita “wife, woman” Morouas peka “chief” Maori paduka- “lord, master” Malay patul- “ruler” Manobo Back