Pokorny had *Uedi (number 2 under the section heading *Ueid-)
- I don't have access to a newer source at the moment.
But isn't *Wi-n-d also behind Greek 3<*V88@:"4 (indallomai)?
We have the Irish verbal root Finn "to know" and Welsh Gwnn "I
know" which both seem to be from *Uind - from Common Celtic *Uid- "see" with
infixed nasal.
(We are talking about my surname, actually - it used to be
spelled Gwynn before my family came to America)
You mean PIE *weid-. This is groping in the darkness. The problem is that the nasal infix is not something that can be added at will to get the desired effect. It's a device for deriving the present tense stem in certain verb classes. The form *wind(-e)- is rather shakily attested (only Sanskrit has vind-a-ti 'find' [root vid-] as far as I know); what we normally find in IE is the unembellished *weid- for 'see, notice' and the unreduplicated perfect *woid-xa etc. for 'know'. The former has been replaced in Celtic, the latter occurs in Welsh gwybod 'know(ledge)' < *woid-+*bhu-ta:-. Old Irish has fiss < *wid-tu- 'knowledge'.I don't think verbal *wind- has ever existed in Celtic, but even if it had, a deverbal adjective related to it would be unlikely to contain a nasal infix anyway (cf. Latin vinco but victus, tango but tactus). For hypothetical 'seen' or 'apparent' one would expect someting like the Latin pp. vi:sus < *wid-to-. Other derived adjectives and nouns are also possible, such as *weid-o-s 'appearance, view', which occurs in Baltic and Slavic, but here we find no infixed nasal either. I still think Celtic *wind-o- 'white' is an enigmatic word without secure cognates (I'm saying this with due respect, as we may be discussing your surname ;-)).Piotr
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