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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂éwis

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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.

Pronunciation
  • (Ringe 2006): IPA(key): [xáwis]

Noun

*h₂éwis f [2]

  1. bird

Inflection
Athematic, amphikinetic
singular
nominative *h₂éwis
genitive *h₂uyés
singular dual plural
nominative *h₂éwis *h₂éwih₁(e) *h₂éweyes
vocative *h₂éwi *h₂éwih₁(e) *h₂éweyes
accusative *h₂éwim *h₂éwih₁(e) *h₂éwims
genitive *h₂uyés *? *h₂uyóHom
ablative *h₂uyés *? *h₂wimós
dative *h₂uyéy *? *h₂wimós
locative *h₂éwi *? *h₂wisú
instrumental *h₂uyéh₁ *? *h₂wibʰí

Descendants
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: հաւ (haw, “bird; hen”)
      • Armenian: հավ (hav, “hen”)
  • Indo-Iranian: *Háwiš (homophonous with "sheep") (see there for further descendants)
  • Italic: *awis[3] (see there for further descendants)

Derived terms
  • *h₂ōwy-ó-m (“egg”, vṛddhi-derivative)[4]
  • *h₂wéy-teh₂ (< genitive *h₂wéys)
    • Albanian: *weitā
  • *h₂wís-teh₂ (< s-stem)
    • Balto-Slavic: *wištā
      • Latvian: vista (“chicken, hen”)
      • Lithuanian: višta (“chicken, hen”)
  • *(s)h₂wy-etó-s[3]
    • Celtic: *(s)awyetos (“duck”)
      • Brythonic: *swɨad[3]
      • Irish: aoi
    • Hellenic: *awjetós[5]
Unsorted formations
  • Albanian: *sjāutā[6]
    • Albanian: shotë (“big duck”)

References
  1. Pooth, R. A. (2015): "Proto-Indo-European Nominal Morphology. Part 1. The Noun", Language Arts 1, issue version 2015-12-23, author manuscript version 2015-12-23, 38 pp.
  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, 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 (1998), “Proto-Indo-European/h₂éwis”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 75
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