gʷei-1

    gʷei-1

    English meaning: to cry, weep

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “klagen, jammern”?

    Note: Außerhalb of Germanischen only uncertain Vergleiche; probably onomatopoeic.

    Material: Goth. qainōn “weep, cry, grieve “, O.N. kveina “ lament”, O.E. cwünian “ wail, sad sein”, O.N. kveinka “ wail, lament” and with other derivative O.Ice. st. Verb. kvīða ‘sich ängstigen”, kvīða f. “ a trembling, quaking, shaking, terror, anxiety, fear, dread, alarm “, kvīði m. ds.; O.E. cwīðan, schw. Verb. “ wail, bemoan “, O.S. quīðian “lament”; hieran remind formal Lith. gíedu and gíestu, giedóti ‘sing, crow “, etc., die to the only in den Satem-Sprachen belegten root *gēi- ‘sing” belong (see there); is the not zusammenstimmenden meaning because of dubious. Maybe Alb. kujë “wailing”, kujtim “memory (of the dead?)”, kujtoj “remember”

    References: WP. I 665 f.