aswinan

Old Prussian

Etymology

PIE word
*h₁éḱwos

From *aswinan (“mare's”) +‎ dadan (“milk”), from *asva, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *éśwāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Compare ructandadan (“sour milk”).

Cognate with Lithuanian ašvà (“mare”), Sanskrit अश्व (áśva), Latin equus and Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos).

Noun

aswinan n

1. mare's milk; kumis

Further reading

• Vladimir Toporov (1975) “aswinan”, in Vyacheslav Ivanov, editor, Прусский язык (in Russian), volume 1, Nauka, page 135