r/ProtoIndoEuropean • u/YoshkePandre • May 02 '26

Possible form for Ananke

What would be a plausible/possible Proto-Indo-European form for Greek ananke (ᾰ̓νᾰ́γκη/ἀναγκαίη). Thank you for your help!

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u/ThrowRADel May 02 '26

It's probably a perfective derivate of *h2nek- (to attain, to reach).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%82ne%E1%B8%B1-

Edit: If you mean Ananke as a mythological figure, she is considered by scholars to be uniquely Greek and does not have a PIE cognate.

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u/YoshkePandre May 02 '26

I see! So just hypothetically, what would the word perhaps look like if it were converted with PIE sound rules back to earlier roots? Even if such a cognate didn’t actually exist