> From: Miguel Carrasquer [mailto:mcv@...]
> What about the Albanian forms? IEW gives vido, vito, vidheze
> "Taube". EIEC gives vida "dove". I'm curious about the
> dental. vito < *h2wéit-? (Leiden is down again, so I can't
> check Demiraj).
>
Albanian form: vito {1} [f] (t)
Meaning: dove
Proto-Albanian: (a)uit-
Other Alb. forms: vidë [f] (g) `dove'; vit/d [interjection] {2} (g)
See also: avdosë
Page in Demiraj AE: 420
IE reconstruction: h2eui-(to-)
Meaning of the IE root: bird
Page in Pokorny: 86
Greek: αἰετός `eagle'
Other IE cognates: Bret. houad `duck'
Notes: {1} The auslaut derives from an exclamation particle (-)o, which also occurs as a grammatical characteristic of the Alb. vocative. {2} Call for pigeons.