- u̯ā̆g-1
- u̯ā̆g-1English meaning: cover; sheathDeutsche Übersetzung: “Hohldeckel, Scheide; schũtzend ũberdecken, ũberstũlpen”Material: Lat. vügīna f. “vagina, esp. of Schwertes”; Balt *u̯üži̯ō ‘stũlpe” in Lith. vóžiu, vóžti “etwasHohles about etwas cover, stũlpen”, Ltv. vüžu, vüst “cover auflegen, stũlpen”; on the other hand could Lat. vügīna (compare Ger. Scheide to scheiden) also to a root u̯ü̆g- ‘split, break, rupture” belong, die Frisk (see 13) in Gk. ἄγνυμι “rupture”, with Redupl. and Ablautἰωγή (< *Fι-Fωγ-ή) “ protection gegen den wind”, whether lit. “das Sichbrechen of Windes”, ἀγμόs m. “break, steiler slope” and in tochar. wük- ‘sich split”, Kaus. ‘split, distinguish, discern”, wükäm n. “Besonderheit, Vorzug” find wIllyr.References: WP. I 214, WH. II 725, Frisk 13, Trautmann 343.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.