Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/awi

This Proto-West Germanic 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-West Germanic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *awiz.

Noun

*awi f

2. ewe

Inflection

Descendants

• Old English: eowu
  • Middle English: ewe, awe, eu, ouwe, yeue, yowe
    • English: ewe
    • Scots: yowe, yhow
    • Yola: yowe
• Old Frisian: ei, ey
  • Saterland Frisian: oye, Oue
  • West Frisian: ei
• Old Saxon: ewi, ewwi
  • Middle Low German: ewe
    • Low German: Eev, Öwwe

      German Low German: Öi, Ei

• Old Dutch: *ōi, *ouwi, *ouw
  • Middle Dutch: ou, ooi
    • Dutch: ooi
      • Afrikaans: ooi
• Old High German: awi, au, ou, ouwi
  • Middle High German: ouwe
    • Alemannic German: Au
    • Cimbrian: öbe
    • German: Aue

Etymology 2

Probably from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éw-is, from *h₂ew- (“to perceive”) +‎ *-is. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“to see; eye”).

Adverb

*awi (comparative *awi, superlative *awist)

2. obvious

Derived terms

• *awitorht (+ *torht (“bright, clear”))
  • Old High German: awizoraht (“openly”)
• *awiwīs (+ *wīs (“wise”))
  • Old English: ēawis (“apparently”)

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