gʷā̆ dh-

    gʷā̆ dh-

    English meaning: to sink, submerge

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “eintauchen, untersinken”

    Material: O.Ind. gǘ hatē “taucht, dringt ein”, participle güḍ ha-ḥ “deep, strong, tight, firm”, gühá -ḥ “depth, das Innere”; with a: gáhana-, gáhvara- “deep, dense”, n. “depth, abyss, thicket “, dur-gáha-m “böser place or way”; das participle güḍ há - is probably analogical form after roots with O.Ind. h = IE ĝh; güdhá - ‘seicht”, m. n. “Untiefe, ford” is perhaps from an O.Ind. root nouns gü (to IE gʷü- “ gait “) + dha as “( About )gang gewährend” to define; Av. acc. pl. vi-güϑō ‘schluchten” (: O.Ind. vi-gühá -) ‘sich eintauchend”, zero grade guδa- “depth”; Gk. βῆσσα, Dor. βᾶσσα (*βᾱθι̯α) f. “Talgrund, gorge, ravine, gulch”; βάσσος n. ds. (*βαθσος), zero grade βυθός, βυσσός “depth, Meeresgrund” with β instead of γ after βῆσσα; ἄβυσσος “where sich nicht dive läßt, grundlos, depth”, βάθος n. “depth”; βένθος “depth” secondary after πένθος : πάθος; O.Ir. bü(i)dim “tauche under, drown”, Welsh boddi “ertränken, ertrinken, ũberfluten”, Corn.bedhy, M.Bret. beuziff “ertränken”; Welsh diffoddi “auslöschen” from *di-spad- (*dīeks- bad-).

    References: WP. I 665, Schwyzer Rhein. Mus. 81, 193 ff.