Английская Википедия:*H₁n̥gʷnis

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Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Infobox deityШаблон:Short description *H₁n̥gʷnis is the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European name of the fire god in the Proto-Indo-European mythology.

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an 18th-century depiction of Agni, a descendant deity

The archaic Proto-Indo-European language (ca. 4500–4000 BC) had a two-gender system which originally divided words between animate and inanimate, a system used to distinguish a common term from its deified synonym. Therefore, fire as an animate entity and active force was known as *h₁n̥gʷnis, while the inanimate entity and natural substance was named *péh₂ur (cf. Greek pyr; English fire).Шаблон:SnfШаблон:Sfn

In some traditions, as the sacral name of the dangerous fire may have become a word taboo,Шаблон:Snf the stem *h₁n̥gʷnis served as an ordinary term for fire, as in the Latin ignis.Шаблон:Snf

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Harvnb, s.v. agni-.