avif
Umbrian
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*avem
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *awis. Cognate with Latin avis. Only attested in the plural.
Noun
avif f pl (ablative aves)
- birds
- early 2nd century BCE, Iguvine Tablets, table I, side A (photo; facsimile), lines 1β2:
- 1 ππππ:βππππππππ:βππ
ππ:βππππππππππ:βπππππ:β 2 ππππππππ:βπππππππ:β [...]
- este persklum aves anzeriates enetu pernaies pusnaes
- Commence this ceremony after having seen the birds, those in front and those behind.
- 1 ππππ:βππππππππ:βππ
ππ:βππππππππππ:βπππππ:β 2 ππππππππ:βπππππππ:β [...]
- early 2nd century BCE, Iguvine Tablets, table I, side A (photo; facsimile), lines 1β2:
Declension
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References
- Buck, Carl Darling (1904), βauifβ, in A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 330
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), βavisβ, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, βISBN, page 65
- Ancillotti, Augusto; Cerri, Romolo (2015), βaueifβ, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 8
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