Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *hwītazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_hwītaz
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श्वेतwhite, bright*světъlight; world
adja-stemwhiteKroonen notes a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytōr, genitive *ḱwitnós, a heteroclitic byform of *ḱweytos (‘bright; shine’). The oblique stem, used to form *ḱwitnós would create a voiceless geminate stop tt assuming Kluge's law, which would be reduced to a single t after the heavy first syllable once the consonantism was analogically extended to other cases. Compare Proto-Slavic *světъ (‘light; world’), Sanskrit श्वेत (śvetá, ‘white, bright’).