engʷ-, n̥gʷēn (engʷh-)

    engʷ-, n̥gʷḗn (engʷh-)

    English meaning: swelling

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Geschwulst, Leistengegend”

    Material: Gk. ἀδήν, ένος m., older f. “glandula” (*n̥gʷḗn) =

    Note: Common Illyr. -gʷh- > -d- phonetic mutatIon. In Gk. -gʷ- > -b- not -d-, otherwise shift n > nd > d common Illyr.-Alb. phonetic mutation but not Gk. Maybe taboo in Alb. anda “pleasure, delight (sexual?)” From Illyr. *engʷhi > idi derived Root īli- (engʷhi, indi): groin, intestines [common Lat. -d- > - l- phonetic mutation] (see below). Lat. inguen, -inis n. “ groin, the genitals, tumefaction in the pubic region “; O.Ice. økkr ‘swelling, lump, growth” (Proto-Gmc. *enkwa-z), økkvinn ‘swollen”, Swe. dial. ink “ blain, boil, furuncle of horses “. IE (e)ngʷ- presumably ablaut from *enegʷh- (with gʷ from gʷh through immediate encounter with the nasal), whereof: negʷh-ró-s “kidney, testicle” (“round intumescence “; perhaps older r/n-stem, Pedersen KZ. 32, 247 f.) in: Gk. νεφρός, mostly pl., “ kidneys”; pränestin. nefrōnēs, lanuvin. nebrundinēs “ kidneys, testicles”; O.H.G. nioro m. “kidney”, partly also “testicle”, M.Eng. M.L.G. nēre, O.S. niūre, O.Ice. nȳra n. “kidney” (Gmc. *neuran- from *neʒʷhran-; O.Ice. umlaut is to be explained from a reshuffling of *neurian-).

    References: WP. I 133 f., WH. I 701, Schwyzer Gk. I 486.