Could Greek eu- good, be a merging of *h1esu- and *h1we:su- ?
*h1wé:su (*h1wésw-) 'good'.
goodness, "betterness", Irish feabhus, Old Irish febas, superiority, feib, distincion, *visus, g. vesv-iás (Thurneysen, Zeit.@+28 149, and Brug.), from vesu- or vesv-, as in fiù,
q.v. Stokes doubtfully compares Latin vigeo, English vigour (Bez. Beit.@+19 75) fiù
worthy, Irish fiú, Old Irish fiú, Welsh gwiw, Cornish guiu, Old Breton uuiu, Gaulish vesu-, *vesu-, vêsu-, good; Sanskrit vásu, good; root ves, be, English was. Some give *visu (*vîsu-) as the stem, Greek isos, like (= visvo-s), Sanskrit vishu, æque. Hence fiùbhaidh, a prince, valiant chief, Irish fiúbhas, dignity; also fiùghanta, generous, Irish fiughantach, fiúntach (Keat.), worthy.
Proto-Celtic: *wesu- 'excellent, noble' [Adjective]
Old Irish: feib [Dat.] 'in excellence' ( feb), fó 'goodness' < *wosu-
Gaulish: Vesu-avus, Bello-vesus [PN]
Proto-Indo-European: *wesu- 'excellent'
Page in Pokorny: 1174
IE cognates: Luw. wāsu- 'good', Skt. vásu-
Notes: OIr. fíu, W gwiw 'worthy, valuable' are also probably related to this root. These forms might be directly derivable from *wesu- > *wihu- (> fíu,
gwiw).
References: EIEC 235, 638, De Bernardo Stempel 1999: 60, 220, Delamarre 318.
"Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> escreveu:
Greek eao:n
< *wesawo- ?
Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@... edu.pl> escreveu:
On 2006-08-03 02:39, Joao S. Lopes wrote:
>
> Which is the current analysis of vasu-?
*h1wé:su (*h1wésw-) 'good'.
Piotr
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