Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wáy
Proto-Indo-European
Alternative forms
- *uwáy (based on Anatolian and Indo-Iranian)
Etymology
Might have been from an earlier *uwáy (“to see oneself”), which has been preserved in Hittite [script needed] (uwai) and Sanskrit उवे (uvé). The form *wáy would then represent a later innovation.
Interjection
*wáy[1]
Derived terms
- *waylos (“howler; wolf”)
Descendants
- Proto-Anatolian: *uwáy
- Hittite: [script needed] (uwai)
- Albanian: vaj
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *wái
- Proto-Celtic: *wai
- Proto-Germanic: *wai (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Hellenic:
- Ancient Greek: οὐαί (ouaí) (possibly)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *wáy, *uwáy
References
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 1110–1111
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 115–116