Editing Sabines (section)

==Etymology==
The Sabines derived directly from the ancient [[Umbri|Umbrians]] and belonged to the same ethnic group as the [[Samnites]] and the [[Sabellians|Sabelli]], as attested by the common ethnonyms of ''Safineis'' (in ancient Greek {{Lang|grc|σαφινείς}}) and by the toponyms ''safinim'' and ''safina'' (at the origin of the terms ''[[Samnium]]'' and [[Sabina (region)|''Sabinum'']]).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ambrosoli|first=Solone|url=http://www.socnumit.org/doc/rin/RIN1966.pdf|title=Rivista Italiana di NVMISMATICA e scienze affini|publisher=Tipografia popolare|year=1966|location=Pavia|page=70|language=it|archive-date=2023-03-26|access-date=2022-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326024010/http://www.socnumit.org/doc/rin/RIN1966.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[Proto-Indo-European language|Indo-European]] [[Root (linguistics)|root]] ''{{Lang|gem-x-proto|Saβeno}}'' or {{Lang|gem-x-proto|Sabh}} evolved into the word {{Lang|mis|Safen}}, which later became ''Safin''. From ''Safinim'', ''Sabinus'', ''Sabellus'' and ''Samnis'', an [[Indo-European language|Indo-European]] root can be extracted, {{Lang|gem-x-proto|sabh-}}, which becomes {{Lang|mis|Sab-}} in [[Latino-Faliscan]] and {{Lang|mis|Saf-}} in [[Osco-Umbrian]]: {{Lang|mis|Sabini}} and {{Lang|mis|*Safineis}}.{{sfn|Salmon|1967|p=30}}

At some point in prehistory, a population speaking a common language extended over both Samnium and [[Umbria]]. Salmon conjectures that it was common Italic and puts forward a date of 600 BC, after which the common language began to separate into dialects. This date does not necessarily correspond to any historical or archaeological evidence; developing a synthetic view of the ethnology of proto-historic Italy is an incomplete and ongoing task.{{sfn|Salmon|1967|pp=29–30}}

Linguist [[Julius Pokorny]] carries the etymology somewhat further back. Conjecturing that the -a- was altered from an -o- during some prehistoric residence in [[Illyria]], he derives the names from an o-grade extension *''swo-bho-'' of an extended e-grade *''swe-bho-'' of the possessive adjective, *''s(e)we-'', of the reflexive pronoun, *''se-'', "oneself" (the source of English ''self''). The result is a set of Indo-European tribal names (if not the endonym of the Indo-Europeans): Germanic [[Suebi]] and [[Semnones]], [[Suiones]]; Celtic [[Senones]]; Slavic [[Serbs]] and [[Sorbs]]; Italic [[Sabelli]], [[Sabini]], etc., as well as a large number of kinship terms.{{sfn|Pokorny|1959|pp=882–884}}