yeu-

Vital force, youthful vigor. Oldest form *ə₂yeu-; variant of aiw-. Suffixed zero-grade form *yuwen- (< *yu-əen-), “possessing youthful vigor,” young.

1. Further suffixed form *yuwn̥-ti-. youth, from Old English geoguth, youth, from Germanic *jugunthi-, *jugunthō.

2. Further suffixed form *yuwn̥-ko-.

a.

(i) young, from Old English geong, young;

(ii) junker, from Old High German junc, young;

(iii) younker, from Middle Dutch jonc, young. (i)-(iii) all from Germanic *jungaz, from *juwungaz;

b. gallowglass, from Old Irish óac, from Celtic *yowanko-.

3. junior, June, Juno, juvenile; rejuvenate, from Latin iuvenis, young.

 

[Pokorny 3. i̯eu- 510.]

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