gʷā-

Also gʷem-. To go, come. Oldest form *gʷeə₂-, colored to *gʷaə₂-, contracted to *gʷā-.

Derivatives include welcome, adventure, souvenir, acrobat, and diabetes.

1.

a. come, from Old English cuman, to come;

b. 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;

c. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.”

4. Suffixed zero-grade form *gʷ(ə)-u- in compound *pres-gʷu- (see per¹).

5. Basic form *gʷā-. bema, from Greek bēma, step, seat, raised platform.

6. 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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