Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/awi

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Proto-Germanic *awiz.

*awi f^[1]

2. ewe

• Old English: eowu
  • Middle English: ewe, awe, eu, ouwe, yeue, yowe
    • English: ewe
    • Scots: yowe, yhow
    • Yola: yowe
• Old Frisian: ei, ey
  • Saterland Frisian: oye, Oue
  • West Frisian: ei
• Old Saxon: ewi, ewwi
  • Middle Low German: ewe
    • Low German: Eev, Öwwe

      German Low German: Öi, Ei

• Old Dutch: *ōi, *ouwi, *ouw
  • Middle Dutch: ou, ooi
    • Dutch: ooi
      • Afrikaans: ooi
• Old High German: awi, au, ou, ouwi
  • Middle High German: ouwe
    • Alemannic German: Au
    • Cimbrian: öbe
    • German: Aue

Probably from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éw-is, from *h₂ew- (“to perceive”) +‎ *-is.^[2] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“to see; eye”).

*awi (comparative *awi, superlative *awist)

2. obvious

• *awitorht (+ *torht (“bright, clear”))
  • Old High German: awizoraht (“openly”)
• *awiwīs (+ *wīs (“wise”))
  • Old English: ēawis (“apparently”)