英语词汇“Indo-European root: awi-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: awi-

释义

‌‌awi-
Bird. Oldest form *h₂ewi‑, colored to *h₂awi‑.
Derivatives include aviation, bustard, ostrich, cockney, oval, and caviar.

1. avian, aviary, aviation; aviculture, avifauna, bustard, ocarina, osprey, ostrich, from Latin avis, bird.
2. Compound *awi-spek‑, "observer of birds" (*spek‑, to see; see spek-). auspice, from Latin auspex, augur.
Possible derivatives are the Indo-European words for egg, *ōwyo‑, *ōyyo‑.
1. 1. cockney, from Old English ǣg, egg;
  2. egg¹, from Old Norse egg, egg. Both a and b from Germanic *ajja(m).
2. oval, ovary, ovate, ovi-, ovolo, ovule, ovum, from Latin ōvum, egg.
3. oo-; avgolemono, bottarga, from Greek ōion, egg.
4. caviar, from a source akin to Middle Persian khāyak, egg, from Old Iranian *āvyaka‑, diminutive of *avya‑.

[Pokorny au̯ei‑ 86.]

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