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Where does “*īwiþia” come from?
*īwiþia (Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic īhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw- — yew.
Ancestry of “*īwiþia”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Germanic
īhwaz
yew; name of the I-rune
2
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁eyHw-
yew
Words derived from “*īwiþia”
*īṷiþia
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw- →
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