au̯iĝ-

    au̯iĝ-

    English meaning: a kind of grass, oat

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Grasart, Hafer”

    Material: Lat. avēna “ oats or wild oats, made only as a cattle feed; hence oaten pipe, shepherd’s pipe; in gen., any stalk, straw “ (presumably after arēna, terrēnus to occurred suffix exchange for *avīna from *au̯iĝ-snü); Lith. avižà , Ltv. (pl. f.) àuzas, O.Pruss. wyse “ oat “, O.C.S. ovьsъ, Russ. ovësъ “oat” (s from z probably probably because it occurs at the end of the word in conservative nom. *ovьz), but αἰγίλωψ “ a wild grass kind, straw, stalk or likewise “ barely as *αFιγιλωψ here. After Specht Decl. 298 would be assumed rather IE *au̯i- besides *au̯es- (*au̯esnü > avēna).

    References: WP. I 24, WH. I 81, Trautmann 21.