gʷet-2

    gʷet-2

    English meaning: to speak

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “reden, sprechen”

    Material: O.Ind. gadati ‘sagt” (whether through analog. influence from *gátati)? sogd. žüyǝm, žam “I say”, žut “er sagt” (urIran. *jü̆ t-ati); Arm. koč̣ em (*gʷot-i̯-) “rufe, name, lade ein”, koč “Einladung” (probably nomen postverbal); Goth. qiÞan ‘say, speak, name”, O.N. kveða ds. and ‘sing, dichten”, O.E. cweðan ‘speak, say, name, order, define”, O.Fris. quetha ‘say, speak, signify”, O.S. queðan, O.H.G. quedan ds.; O.Ice. kviðr ‘spruch, Gerede”, O.S. quidi st. m. “ discourse, word”; causative O.Ice. kveðja “begrũßen, address, speak to, arrogate, aufbieten”, O.S. queddian, O.H.G. chetten “begrũßen” (d. h. “zum discourse bringen”); O.N. kvǫÞ “ demand, Vorladung, commitment “ is to kveða retograd shaped; Goth. un-qēÞs “unaussprechlich” (compare O.N. sam-kvǣ ðr “ũbereinstimmend”), sama-qiss f. “Übereinstimmung” (*gʷet-ti-), to O.E. ge-cwiss f. “Verschwörung”. Maybe Alb.Gheg quej, quejta (aor.) “to name, call”.

    References: WP. I 672, Feist 389, G. Morgenstierne NTS. 7, 116 ff.