Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ēnuScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ēnu
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Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und PronominalstämmeGeorge E.DunkelUniversitätsverlag Winter22014*énualong, afterअनु-after, along, alongside
prepositionwithout (with accusative)Dunkel 2014 reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *énu (‘along, after’) for Gothic, and lengthened grade *ḗnu for North and West Proto-Germanic and notes that a construction with an initial laryngeal is unnecessary. Cognate with Vedic Sanskrit अनु- (ánu-, ‘after, along, alongside’), which is especially informative in its use in negative compounds, such as अनानुकृत्य (anānukṛtyá), meaning ‘inimitable, unparalleled, not to be done again’. The Proto-Germanic reflexes continue a similar semantic shift from ‘along/following’ to a privative sense in negative constructions: ‘not following, not accompanied by’ → ‘without’.