oi-no-

One, unique.

Derivatives include once, atone, union, universe, and any.

I. Basic form *oi-no-.

1.

a. a¹, an¹, once, one; alone, anon, atone, lone, lonely, none, from Old English ān, one;

b. eleven, from Old English endleofan, eleven, from Germanic compound *ain-lif-, “one left (beyond ten),” eleven (*lif-, left over; see leikʷ-);

c. einkorn, turnverein, from Old High German ein, one. a-c all from Germanic *ainaz.

2. uni-, union, unite, unity; coadunate, triune, unanimous, unicorn, universe, from Latin ūnus, one.

3. indricothere, from Old Russian inŭ, one.

4. Latin nōn, not (< *ne-oinom, “not one thing” see ne).

II. Suffixed form *oino-ko-.

a. any, from Old English ǣnig, one, anyone, from Germanic *ainigaz;

b. unique, from Latin ūnicus, sole, single;

c. inch¹, ounce¹, uncial; quincunx, from Latin ūncia, one twelfth of a unit.

III. Suffixed form *oino-lo- in Latin ūllus (see ne).

 

[Pokorny 3. D. e- 281.]

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