*h₂wes- [ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
to dwell , live , reside
to stay , spend the night
*h₂wés-e-ti ( thematic root present )
*h₂wés-ti ~ *h₂us-énti ( athematic root present )
Hittite: 𒄷𒅖𒍣 ( ḫuišzi , “ to live ” ) [ 7]
*h₂(w)e-h₂wós-e ~ *h₂(w)e-h₂us-ḗr ( stative )
Proto-Germanic: *was (see there for further descendants )
Proto-Indo-Iranian: *HuHā́sa
*h₂í-h₂ews-e-ti ( post-PIE reduplicated present with schwebeablaut )
*h₂wós-e-ti
Proto-Celtic: *woseti (see there for further descendants )
Proto-Tocharian:
Tocharian B: wäs- ( “ to stay, to wait ” )
*h₂wés-ti-s ~ *h₂us-téy-s
Proto-Germanic: *wistiz ( “ essence, nature ” )
Proto-Indo-Iranian:
( perhaps ) *h₂wós-tu
Unsorted formations
Albanian:
Proto-Anatolian:
Hittite: 𒄷𒍑 ( ḫu-uš )
Luwian:
Anatolian Hieroglyphs script: [Anatolian Hieroglyphs needed] ( hwisar , “ game, wild beasts ” )
Armenian:
Old Armenian: ագանիմ ( aganim , “ to spend the night ” ) , գոյ ( goy , “ being, existence; God ” ) , գոմ ( gom , “ to exist ” )
Proto-Hellenic:
Ancient Greek: ἄεσα ( áesa , “ to pass the night ” ) [ 8]
Proto-Italic: *Westā
Indo-Iranian
Sanskrit: वस्तु ( vastu , “ essence, substance, truth ” ) (relationship to *weh₁ unclear)
^ Ringe, Donald (2006 ) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1] , Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
^ Rix, Helmut , editor (2001 ), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs ] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN , page 293
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996 ) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan ][2] (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 531
^ Cheung, Johnny (2007 ) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN , page 202
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^ Watkins, Calvert (1985 ) “wes- ”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots , Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008 ) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN , pages 353-354
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010 ) “ἄεσα ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10 ), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN , page 25