Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/wai
Proto-Celtic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *wáy. Compare Latin vae, Lithuanian vaĩ, vái, Proto-Germanic *wai, Russian увы́ (uvý, “alas”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬫𐬋𐬌 (vayōi), Sanskrit उवे (uvé), Persian وای (vây).
Interjection
edit*wai[1]
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*way”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 405