gʷā- / Indo-European roots

Examples of words with the root gʷā-: abasia, acrobat, adiabatic, advent, amphisbaena, anabaena, base, basis, batophobia, become, bema, circumvent, come, contravene, convene, diabetes, Durga, event, hyperbaton, intervene, invent, juggernaut, katabatic, parvenu, prevenient, prevent, provenance, quim, revenue, souvenir.

g^wā-

To go, come.

Oldest form *g^weh₂-, colored to *g^wah₂-, becoming *g^wā-.

▲ Derivatives include welcome, adventure, souvenir, acrobat, diabetes.

a. come from Old English cuman, to come;

b. welcome from Old English wilcuma, a welcome guest, and wilcume, the greeting of welcome, from Germanic compound *wil-kumōn-, a desirable guest (*wil-, desirable; see wel-¹) , from *kumōn-, he who comes, a guest;

c. become from Old English becuman, to become, from Germanic compound *bi-kuman, to arrive, come to be (*bi-, intensive prefix; see ambhi). a-c all from Germanic *kuman.

2. Suffixed form *g^w(e)m-yo-. venire, venue; advent, adventitious, adventure, avenue, circumvent, contravene, convene, convenient, convent, conventicle, convention, coven, covenant, event, eventual, intervene, invent, inventory, misadventure, parvenu, prevenient, prevent, provenance, provenience, revenant, revenue, souvenir, subvention, supervene from Latin venīre, to come.

3. Suffixed zero-grade form *g^wm̥-yo-. base¹, basis; abasia, acrobat, adiabatic, amphisbaena, anabaena, anabasis, batophobia, diabase, diabetes, hyperbaton, katabatic, stereobate, stylobate from Greek bainein, to go, walk, step, with basis (< *g^wə-ti-, suffixed zero-grade form of *gwā-), a stepping, tread, base, -batos (< *g^wə-to-), going, and -batēs (< *g^wə-tā-), agential suffix, "one that goes or treads, one that is based"

4. Suffixed lengthened-grade form g^wēm-yo-. quim perhaps from Old English gecwēme, pleasant, fitting ("becoming"), from Germanic *-kwǣmja-. (*ge-, intensive prefix; see kom)

5. Suffixed zero-grade form *g^w(ə)-u- in compound *pres-g^wu- (see per¹)

6. Basic form *g^wā-. bema from Greek bēma, step, seat, raised platform.

7. Basic form *g^wā- or zero-grade form *g^wm̥- in Sanskrit compound durga-, difficult to approach (*dus-, *dur-, difficult; see dus-) Durga from Sanskrit Durgā, Durga (short for durgā devī, goddess who is difficult to approach), from durgā, feminine of durga-.

8. Reduplicated form *g^we-g^wā-. juggernaut from Sanskrit jagat, moving, the world, originally present participle of *jagāti (remade as jigāti), he goes.

[Pokorny g̒ͧā- 463.]

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