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Kroonen notes a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European*ḱweytōr, genitive *ḱwitnós, a heteroclitic byform of *ḱweytos(“bright; shine”). The oblique stem, used to form *ḱwitnós would create a voiceless geminate stop tt assuming Kluge's law, which would be reduced to a single t after the heavy first syllable once the consonantism was analogically extended to other cases. Compare Proto-Slavic*světъ(“light; world”), Sanskritश्वेत(śvetá, “white, bright”).
