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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	awi-
DEFINITION:	Bird. Oldest form ₂ewi-, colored to ₂awi-. Derivatives include aviation, bustard, ostrich, cockney, oval, and caviar. I. 1. avian, aviary, aviation; aviculture, avifauna, bustard, ocarina, osprey, ostrich, from Latin avis, bird. 2. Compound awi-spek-, “observer of birds” (spek-, to see; see spek-). auspice, from Latin auspex, augur. II. Possible derivatives are the Indo-European words for egg, wyo-, yyo-. 1a. cockney, from Old English g, egg; b. egg¹, from Old Norse egg, egg. Both a and b from Germanic ajja(m). 2. oval, ovary, ovate, ovi-, ovolo, ovule, ovum, from Latin vum,* egg. 3. oo-, from Greek ion, egg. 4. caviar, from a source akin to Middle Persian khyak, egg, from Old Iranian vyaka-, diminutive of avya-. (Pokorny aei- 86.)


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