ai-5 : oi-

    ai-5 : oi-

    English meaning: important speech

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “bedeutsame Rede” (?)

    Material: Gk. αἴνημι, αἰνέω “praises”, αἴνος m., αἴνη f. ‘significant speech, praise”; αἰνίσσομαι “talks in riddles”, common Gk.-Illyr. -ks- > -ss- phonetic mutation; αἰνιγμα n. “dark speech” (however, ἀν-αίνομαι ‘says no, deny” -i̯o- appears derivative of the negation ἀν-); ablaut, M.Ir. ōeth m. “oath” (O.Welsh anutonou pl., gl. “ the perjured, the perfidious “, nWelsh anudon “perjury, act of lying under oath”) = Goth. aiÞs m., O.Ice. eiðr, O.E. üÞ, O.S. ēđ, O.H.G. eid m. “oath” (probably Celt. Lw.).

    References: WP. I 2, 103, Osthoff ВB. 24, 208 f.