ai-1

    ai 1

    English meaning: “exclamation”

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Ausruf

    Material: O.Ind. ē exclamation of remembering, address, compassion; O.Ind. ai the same; ayi interjection with the vocative; Av. üi interjection of the phone call (before the vocative); Gk. αἴ, αἶ, αἰαἶ exclamation of the surprise, of astonishment or pain (thereof αἰάζω “ sighs, deplores “, αἴαγμα ‘sigh”); Lith. aĩ and ái “ oh! blows! “ and before vocatives.

    References: WP. I 1, WH. I 396, Benveniste Origines 130 f.

    See also: see also *aik-.