Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *awǭ

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *awǭ Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_awǭ

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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages Robert D. Fulk John Benjamins Publishing Company 2018 Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 5) Alwin Kloekhorst Brill 2008 Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11) Guus Kroonen Brill 2013 Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7) Michiel de Vaan Brill 2008 *awō grandmother avia grandmother *h₂éwh₂-s ~ *h₂uh₂-ós maternal grandfather; maternal uncle

noun feminine ōn-stem grandmother The feminine counterpart of *awô. The pair represents secondary n-stem remodeling of the Indo-European kinship term ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root noun *h₂éwh₂-s ~ *h₂uh₂-ós Kloekhorst 2008: 352–53 Kroonen 2013: 44–45. Proto-Germanic feminine ōn-stems were innovative, with *-ōn- generalized as the feminine counterpart of masculine *-an- Fulk 2018: 171–72. Continued by Gothic *awō. Compare Latin avia, probably a related feminine formation, though its precise derivation is uncertain de Vaan 2008: 66, s.v. avus.