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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂éwis

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Etymology

Pooth argues that *h₂éwis and *h₂ówis (“sheep”) are related and both from a root *h₂ew- (“dress, be dressed, clothe oneself”).[1] *h₂éwis would mean "the one who is clothed (in feathers)", and *h₂ówis "the one that produces clothing (from wool)", the latter having detransitive or middle meaning marked by *o.

Noun

*h₂éwis f[2]

  1. bird

Inflection
Athematic, proterokinetic
singular
nominative *h₂éwis
genitive *h₂wéys
singular dual plural
nominative *h₂éwis *h₂éwih₁(e) *h₂éweyes
vocative *h₂éwi *h₂éwih₁(e) *h₂éweyes
accusative *h₂éwim *h₂éwih₁(e) *h₂éwims
genitive *h₂wéys *? *h₂wéyoHom
ablative *h₂wéys *? *h₂wímos
dative *h₂wéyey *? *h₂wímos
locative *h₂wéy, *h₂wḗy *? *h₂wísu
instrumental *h₂wíh₁ *? *h₂wímis

Descendants
  • Proto-Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: հաւ (haw, “bird; hen”)
      • Armenian: հավ (hav), հավք (havkʻ)
      • ⇒ Old Georgian: ჰავით ზმნაჲ (havit zmnay, “fortune-telling using a chicken, bird”), ჰავის-ზმნაჲ (havis-zmnay, “sorcery, witchery”)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *Hwíš (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *awis[3] (see there for further descendants)

Derived terms
  • *h₂ōwy-ó-m (“egg”, vṛddhi-derivative)[4]
  • *h₂wéy-teh₂ (< genitive *h₂wéys)
    • Proto-Albanian: *weitā
  • *h₂wís-teh₂ (< s-stem)
    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *wíštā
      • Latvian: vista (“chicken, hen”)
      • Lithuanian: višta (“chicken, hen”)
  • *(s)h₂wy-etó-s[3]
    • Proto-Celtic: *(s)awyetos (“duck”)
      • Proto-Brythonic: *swɨad[3]
      • Irish: aoi
    • Proto-Hellenic: *awjetós[5]
Unsorted formations

References
  1. The template Template:R:ine:Pooth:2015 does not use the parameter(s): 
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  2. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 143: “*hₐewei- 'bird'”
  3. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “avis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 65-66
  4. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 143: “*hₐō(w)i-om 'egg'”
  5. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “αίετός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 35
  6. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “shotë”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 75: “*sjāutā”
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