awi-

Bird. Oldest form *ə₂ewi-, colored to *ə₂awi-.

Derivatives include aviation, bustard, ostrich, cockney, oval, and caviar.

I.

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.

II. Possible derivatives are the Indo-European words for egg, *ōwyo-, *ōyyo-.

1.

a. cockney, from Old English ǣg, egg;

b. 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-, 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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