Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *awjôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_awjô
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The English language before England: an epigraphic accountBernardMeesNew York, NY LondonRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group2023bISBN: 978-1-032-21418-4 978-1-032-21417-7Altnordisches Etymologisches WörterbuchJande VriesBrill1977The Aviones and Widsith 26a10.1017/S0263675100001290AlanBlissAnglo-Saxon England, vol. 1497 - 1061985eyislandeynirislanders
nounmasculinean-stema member of the Aviones, a Germanic people mentioned by Tacitus among the tribes that worshipped NerthusA reconstructed masculine n-stem ethnonym derived from *awjō, hence literally ‘islander, inhabitant of watery land’. The singular *awjô is inferred from the tribal name attested by Tacitus as Latin Aviones and probably also by Old English Eowum (dat. pl.) in Widsith 26a Bliss 1985: 97–106Mees 2023b: 8–9. The interpretation of Aviones as ‘islanders’ goes back at least to Grimm and remains widely accepted Mees 2023b: 8. Compare Old Norse eynir, likewise derived from ey; its direct historical identity with Aviones is uncertain de Vries 1977: s.v. eynir. See *awjō for the further etymology.