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An Indo-European Etymology of: *ai
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The following etymologies are adapted from: Webster's 3rd Col. Ed. (c.1988).
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'early' => IE.: *aier => 'dawn' => IE.: *ai-(s) = 'burn' / 'shine' || IE.: *(e)-r = 'motion'
'aether' => Gr.: aither = 'air' / 'sky' / 'the heavens' / 'the fifth element' => Gr.: aithein =
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~ 'kindle' / 'burn' => IE.: *ai-dh
|| 'day(light)' || 'air' => Gr.: aer = 'air' / 'mist'
'aesthetic' => Gr.: aisthetikos = '(be) sensitive' => Gr.: aisthanes [ 'ai-(s)-th-ai' ] = 'to
~~. perceive' => Gr.: ai-s-thesis = 'feeling' => IE.: *ai-(s) = 'vital force' ||
[ 'r-ai-(s)-e' ]
~~. IE.: *a(i)-w-i-(s-) = '(immediate) physical perception' ||
'wise' | 'ask' | [be 'aw-are']
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'eo-' => Gr.: eos = 'dawn' => IE.: *a(i)-w-os = 'to shine' || [Eos: Gr. Gdss. of Dawn]
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'eon' => Gr.: aion = 'an age / 'lifetime' / 'eternity' => IE.: *ai-w- / *ai-dj = 'vital force'
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'emulate' => 'image' => L.: aemulus = 'try to equal or excell' => Gr.: ainymai = 'take'
.('hold as one's own') => IE.: *ai- = 'give' / 'take' / 'accept'
|| 'animate' | 'aim' || 'may' |
'edify' => (to build) => L.: aedes = 'a dwelling' / (around) 'a hearth' => Gr.: aithein =
'to burn' => IE.: *ai-dh = 'to burn' || 'estival' => L.: aestas = 'summer' => IE.: *ai-dh
'deify' => | 'deity' | => IE.: *dei-w-os = 'god' => IE.: *dei = 'to gleam' / 'shine' || 'day'
'ash' => OE.: æsce => IE.: *as / [*ai-s] = 'to burn' || IE.: *ei-(s) = 'move quickly'
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