aiw- Also ayu-. Vital force, life, long life, eternity; also “endowed with the acme of vital force, young.” (Oldest forms *a2ezw-, *a2ey«-, colored to *a2azw-, *a2uyzz-.) 1a. NO1, from Old English a, ever; b. aught1, from Old English awiht, auht, anything, “ever a creature”; C. ever;every, never, from Old English ¿e/re (second element obscure), ever; d. aye2; nay, from Old Norse ei, ever, a, C, and d all from extended Germanic form *aiwi; b from Germanic *azwz + *wihti, “ever a thing, anything” (SvzTzfz-, thing; see wekti-). 2a. Suffixed form *aiw-o-. coeval, longevity, medieval, primeval, from Latin aevum, age, eternity; b. further suffixed form *aiwo-ta(ti)-. age; co- etaneous, from Latin aetas (stem aetati-), age; C. further suffixed form *aiwo-t-erno-. eternal, eterne, eternity; sempiternal, from Latin aeternus, eternal. 3. Suffixed form *aiw-en-. eon, from Greek aion, age, vital force. 4. Zero-grade form *yu- (earlier *ayzz-) in compound *dyu-gwis-es~, “having a vigorous life” (*gM'za-es-, life; see gweia-1). hygiene, from
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