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gwā-
Also gwem-.
To go, come. Oldest form *gweh2‑, colored to *gwah2‑, becoming *gwā‑.
Derivatives include welcome, adventure, souvenir, acrobat, and diabetes.- come, from Old English cuman, to come;
- welcome, from Old English wilcuma, a welcome guest, and wilcume, the greeting of welcome, from Germanic compound *wil-kumōn‑, a desirable guest (*wil‑, desirable; see wel-1), from *kumōn‑, he who comes, a guest;
- become, from Old English becuman, to become, from Germanic compound *bi-kuman, to arrive, come to be (*bi‑, intensive prefix; see ambhi). a-c all from Germanic *kuman.
- Suffixed form *gw(e)m-yo‑. venire, venue; advent, adventitious, adventure, avenue, circumvent, contravene, convene, convenient, convent, conventicle, convention, coven, covenant, event, eventual, intervene, invent, inventory, misadventure, parvenu, prevenient, prevent, provenance, provenience, revenant, revenue, souvenir, subvention, supervene, from Latin venīre, to come.
- Suffixed zero-grade form *gwm̥-yo‑. base1, basis; abasia, acrobat, adiabatic, amphisbaena, anabaena, anabasis, batophobia, diabase, diabetes, hyperbaton, katabatic, stereobate, stylobate, from Greek bainein, to go, walk, step, with basis (< *gwə-ti‑, suffixed zero-grade form of *gwā‑), a stepping, tread, base, -batos (< *gwə-to‑), going, and -batēs (< *gwə-tā‑), agential suffix, "one that goes or treads, one that is based.".
- Suffixed lengthened-grade form gwēm-yo‑. quim, perhaps from Old English gecwēme, pleasant, fitting ("becoming"), from Germanic *-kwǣmja‑. (*ge‑, intensive prefix; see kom).
- Suffixed zero-grade form *gw(ə)-u‑ in compound *pres-gwu‑ (see per1).
- Basic form *gwā‑. bema, from Greek bēma, step, seat, raised platform.
- Basic form *gwā‑ or zero-grade form *gwm̥‑ in Sanskrit compound durga‑, difficult to approach (*dus‑, *dur‑, difficult; see dus-). Durga, from Sanskrit Durgā, Durga (short for durgā devī, goddess who is difficult to approach), from durgā, feminine of durga‑.
- Reduplicated form *gwe-gwā‑. juggernaut, from Sanskrit jagat, moving, the world, originally present participle of *jagāti (remade as jigāti), he goes.
[Pokorny gu̯ā‑ 463.] |
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