Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *audazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_audaz
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008Hittite uwaš and congenersH. CraigMelchertIndogermanische Forschungen 91102–1151986Lat. ūberOswaldSzemerényiGlotta 34(3–4)272–2871955Per l’etimologia e la storia dei bagaudiAndreaNutiAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese 16 n.s.97–1162023ūberbreast, udder; rich, abundant; fertile*h₁ówHdʰr̥udderūbertāsabundance
nounmasculinea-stemwealth, richesPossibly from the same Proto-Indo-European verbal base underlying *h₁ówHdʰr̥, reconstructed as *h₁ewh₁⸝₃-dʰ- and associated with giving or excreting milk and swelling with liquid. Latin ūber developed the secondary senses ‘abundant, rich’, with ūbertās, providing a close semantic parallel for ‘full of milk, productive’ > ‘abundant’ > ‘wealth, riches’ de Vaan 2008: 636Melchert 1986: 110–111Szemerényi 1955: 281–86. Orel explicitly compares *audaz with Latin ūberOrel 2003: s.v. *audaz ~ *audan. Alternatively, Kroonen 2013: 40–41 derives the term from *Heu-dʰh₁- ‘weave’, with ‘wealth, fortune’ arising through the mythological concept of fate being woven; this semantic step was already questioned by Szemerényi and more recently by Nuti 2023: 107–109.