*awadī

Of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin. Kroonen (2013: 44) reconstructs a North Germanic root *aw(V)d- and interprets *awadī as a feminine formation beside an unattested masculine form; compare Old Norse æðr and Swedish dialectal åd. Closely associated with Northern Sámi hávda and Lule Sámi ávdđa. North Saami hávda belongs to a group of etymologically obscure Sámi words whose vocalism suggests borrowing from an unknown substrate after the Great Sámi Vowel Shift (Aikio 2012: 84). Šorgo (2020: 435) argues that the Germanic and Sámi terms may derive from a third, lost language, although borrowing from one branch into the other is possible; the exclusively northern Germanic distribution may indicate that the word entered Proto-North-Germanic only after the breakup of Proto-Germanic proper. Earlier comparisons with Sanskrit आति (ātí) and PIE *h₂éwis are phonologically formally unconvincing (Kroonen 2013: 44; Lockwood 1974: 112–15).