auiatas

Marrucinian

Etymology

Probably from a denominative verb built to Proto-Italic *awis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis.

Participle

auiatas f (nominative plural)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: bird-observing

References

  • Robert Seymour Conway (1897), The Italic Dialects‎[1] (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, page 604
  • Rex Wallace (1984), The Sabellian Languages‎[2] (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 104
  • Václav Blažek; Douglas Q. Adams (2022), “Indo-European ‘bird’”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies‎[3], volume 50, numbers 3-4, →ISSN, page 338
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