wet-1. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	wet-¹
DEFINITION:	To blow, inspire, spiritually arouse. Related to w-. Oldest form ₂wet-.* Derivatives include Wednesday and atmosphere. 1. Lengthened-grade form wt-. a. Woden; Wednesday, from Old English Wden,* Woden; b. Odin, from Old Norse dhinn, Odin; c. Wotan, from Old High German Wuotan. a–c all from Germanic suffixed form wd-eno-, wd-ono-, “raging,” “mad,” “inspired,” hence “spirit,” name of the chief Teutonic god Wd-enaz; d. wood², from Old English wd,* mad, insane, from Germanic wdaz; e. Celtic wt-. vatic, from Latin vts, prophet, poet, from a Celtic source akin to Old Irish fáith, seer. 2. O-grade form wot-. wedeln, from Old High German wedil,* fan, from Germanic suffixed form wath-ila-. 3. Suffixed variant form wat-no-. fan¹, van³, from Latin vannus, a winnowing fan. 4. Oldest basic form wet- becoming awet- in suffixed form awet-mo-. atmosphere, from Greek atmos* (< *aetmos), breath, vapor. (Pokorny 1. t- 1113.)


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