英语词汇“Indo-European root: wet-”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: wet-

释义

‌‌wet-¹
To blow, inspire, spiritually arouse. Related to wē- . Oldest form *h₂wet‑
Derivatives include Wednesday, and atmosphere.

Lengthened-grade form *wōt‑.
1. Woden; Wednesday, from Old English Wōden, Woden;
2. Odin, from Old Norse ōdhinn, Odin;
3. Wotan, from Old High German Wuotan. a-c all from Germanic suffixed form *wōd-eno‑, *wōd-ono‑, "raging," "mad," "inspired," hence "spirit," name of the chief Teutonic god *Wōd-enaz;
4. wood², from Old English wōd, mad, insane, from Germanic *wōdaz;
5. Celtic *wāt‑. vatic, from Latin vātēs, prophet, poet, from a Celtic source akin to Old Irish fáith, seer.
O-grade form *wot‑. wedeln, from Old High German wedil, fan, from Germanic suffixed form *wath-ila‑.
Suffixed variant form *wat-no‑. fan¹, van³, from Latin vannus, a winnowing fan.
Oldest basic form *əwet‑ becoming *awet‑ in suffixed form *awet-mo‑. atmosphere, from Greek atmos (< *aetmos), breath, vapor.

[Pokorny 1. u̯āt‑ 1113.]

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