Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aiwukizScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aiwukiz
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Encyclopedia of Indo-European CultureJames P.MalloryDouglas Q.AdamsFitzroy Dearborn Publishers1997From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017Life everlasting: Latin iūgis ‘everflowing’, Greek ὑγιής ‘healthy’, Gothic ajukdūþs ‘eternity’ and Avestan yauuaēǰī- ‘living forever’MichaelWeissMünchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft55131-1561994-𐬘𐬍- 𐬫𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬈living foreverὑγιήςsound, healthy*gʷeyh₃-to liveiūgiscontinual, ever-flowing*h₂óyu ~ *h₂yéw-long time, lifetime*h₂ey-vital force, life, age, eternity*gʷih₃-life, living
adji-stemeternal, lasting foreverProbably from a Proto-Indo-European compound approximately *h₂oyu-gʷih₃- or *h₂yu-gʷih₃-, literally ‘ever-living’, from *h₂óyu ~ *h₂yéw- from root *h₂ey- + *gʷih₃-, from a zero-grade form of root *gʷeyh₃-; related to *aiwaz. Compare Latin iūgis, Ancient Greek ὑγιής, and Avestan -𐬘𐬍- 𐬫𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬈Kroonen 2013: s.v. *ajuki-Mallory & Adams 1997: 356Weiss 1994: 131–56. Þórhallsdóttir, as cited by Weiss, derives Germanic *aju- from analogically generalized prevocalic *aiw-: *aiwu- > *aju- through loss of w before u; the resulting intervocalic *-j- arose only after the Proto-Germanic deletion of inherited intervocalic *-j- and was therefore preserved Ringe 2017: 161 n. 27Weiss 1994: 147–48.