au̯o-s (*ḫuḫḫaš)

    au̯o-s (*ḫuḫḫaš)

    English meaning: grandfather

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Großvater mũtterlicherseits”

    Note: The original root was Hitt. ḫu-uḫ-ḫa-aš (ḫuḫḫaš) “grandfather” branched into Root au̯o-s: grandfather in centum languages and Root sūs- (*ghus): parent : Alb. (*ḫuḫḫaš) gjysh “grandfather” in satem languages; old laryngeal centum ḫ- > a-, e- : satem ḫ- > s- ;

    Material: Arm. hav, gen. havu “grandfather”, Lat. avus “ grandfather; poet., in gen., an ancestor “; fem. Lat. avia “grandmother” (see finally Leumann-Stolz5 204), dubious Gk. αἶα as “ primordial mother earth “ (compare Brugmann IF. 29, 206 ff., Schwyzer Gk. I 473; Lat. also -hu̯- > -v- phonetic mutatIon. different Jacobsohn Phil. 67, 484 f., Kretschmer Glotta 5. 307); avītus “ of a grandfather, ancestral “ is probably shaped after marītus, older i-stem in Lith. avūnas “ brother of the mother “; differently Jacobsohn Phil. 67, 484 f., innkeepers Glotta 5. 307); avītus “ large-scale fatherly, angestammt “ is formed probably after marītus, old i-stem in Lith. avýnas “ brother of the mother “; i̯o-derivative O.Pruss. awis “uncle”, O.C.S. *ujь ds. (ujka “aunt”), O.Ir. (h)áue “ a grandson, a nephew “, M.Ir. ó(a), úa ds.; en-stem: Goth. awō “grandmother”, O.N. afi “grandfather”, üi “ great-grandfather “, O.E. ēam, O.Fris. ēm, O.H.G. ōheim, Ger. Oheim, Ohm (after Osthoff PBrB. 13, 447 *awun-haimaz “ the one (he) who lived in grandfather’s home “), after R. Much Gmc. 205 from *auhaim < IE *au̯os k̂oimos “ dear grandfather”, compare Welsh tad cu [*tatos koimos] “grandfather”), Lat. avunculus “ brother of the mother “ (probably caressing diminutive an *avō, -ōnis); Welsh ewythr, O.Corn. euitor, Bret. eontr “uncle” (*au̯en-tro-). The stem called originally the grandparents on the maternal side, become through the words for “uncle or aunt on the maternal side “ probably, s. Hermann GGN. 1918, 214 f. Da Arm. hav could go back also to *pap-, would be au̯os only north - West IE On account of here Hitt. ḫu-uḫ-ḫa-aš (ḫuḫḫaš) “grandfather”? Lyc. *χuga “ grandfather on the maternal side “ appears to speak rather for Asia Minor origin.

    References: WP. I 20 f., WH. 88 f., 851, Pedersen Lyc. under Hitt. 25 f., Risch Mus. Helv. 1, 118 ff.