英语词汇“Indo-European root: gwei-”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: gwei-

释义

‌‌g^wei-
To live. Also g^weiə- (oldest form *g^weih₃‑, with metathesized variant *g^wyeh₃‑, colored to *g^wyoh₃‑, becoming *g^wyō‑).
Derivatives include quick, vivid, vitamin, whiskey, amphibious, microbe, and hygiene.

Suffixed zero-grade form *g^wi-wo‑, *g^wī-wo‑ (< *g^wiə-wo‑), living.
1. 1. quick, quicksilver, from Old English cwic, cwicu, living, alive;
  2. couch grass, quitch grass, from Old English cwice, couch grass (so named from its rapid growth). Both a and b from Germanic *kwi(k)waz.
2. 1. 1. sempervivum, vivify, viviparous, from Latin vīvus, living, alive;
    2. viper, weever, wyvern, from Latin vīpera, viper, contracted from *vīvipera, "bearing live young" (from the belief that it hatches its eggs inside its body), from feminine of earlier *vīvo-paros (-paros, bearing; see perə-¹).
  2. viand, victual, viva, vivacious, vivid; convivial, revive, survive, from Latin denominative vīvere, to live.
3. azoth, from Middle Persian *zhīwak, alive, from Old Persian *jīvaka‑, extension of jīva‑.
4. Further suffixed form *g^wī-wo-tā‑. viable, vital; vitamin, from Latin vīta, life.
5. Further suffixed form *g^wi-wo-tūt‑. usquebaugh, whiskey, from Old Irish bethu, life.
Suffixed zero-grade form *g^wiə-o‑. bio-, biota, biotic; aerobe, amphibian, anabiosis, cenobite, dendrobium, microbe, rhizobium, saprobe, symbiosis, from Greek bios, life (> biotē, way of life).
Variant form *g^wyō‑ (< *g^wyoə‑).
1. azo-; diazo, hylozoism, from Greek zōē, zoē, life.
2. Suffixed form *g^wyō-yo‑. zodiac, -zoic, zoo-, zoon¹, -zoon, from Greek zōon, zōion, living being, animal.
Compound suffixed form *yu-g^wiə-es‑ (see aiw-).
Possibly Old English cwifer‑, nimble quiver¹.

[Pokorny 3. g^u̯ei̯‑ 467.]

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