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Where does “*oiwa” come from?
*oiwa (Proto-Hellenic) comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw- — yew.
Ancestry of “*oiwa”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
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Proto-Indo-European
*h₁eyHw-
yew
Words derived from “*oiwa”
ὄα
οἴη
vadhë
vadhëz
vadhëviçe
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