u̯ī̆-2, u̯oi- (*su̯ī̆-)

    u̯ī̆-2, u̯oi- (*su̯ī̆-)

    English meaning: expr. root

    Deutsche Übersetzung: in Schallworten

    Material: Gk. ἰά̄, Ion. ἰή f. ‘shout, call, scream” (Fιά:), ἰαῖ, ἰ̄ή “Ausruf the Freude or of Schmerzes”, Hom. (F)ἰόμωροι epithet the Argiver (“βοην ἀγαθοί”); ἰήιος epithet of Apollo (den man with ἰη παιών anrief), hence perhaps ᾽ΙάFονες, ῎Iωνες “Ionier” as “Verehrer of Apollo”; ἰήιος or ἰά̄-Rufer (? Schwyzer Gk. 1, 80); O.E. wī (besides weg, wei, wü) “weh, oh”; due to eines*u̯ī-to- “jubelnd” here Lith. vyturỹs “Lerche” and probably Lat. vītulor “ jubilate, cheer, stimme einen Sieges- or Lobgesang an, be cheerful”; aRuss. viskati “ neigh “, visnǫti “muttire”, Russ. dial. viščatь, Pol. wiskać, wiszczeć “loud whistle”; Russ. vizg “Gewinsel”, vizžá tь “ whimper “.

    References: WP. I 312, 527, WH. II 807, Holthausen Ae. etym. Wb. 392, Vasmer 1, 199.