Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/awjō

From earlier *agwjō, originally a substantive adjective related to *ahwō (“water; stream, river”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂ (“water”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.jɔː/

*awjō f^[1]

1. floodplain; meadow
2. island

• *awjōlandą (“island”)
• *Batawjō (“Batavia”)
• *gawją (“district, shire”)
• *Skadinawjō (“Scandia”)

• *ahwō

• Proto-West Germanic: *auwju
  • Old English: īeġ, ēġ, īġ
    • Middle English: ei, i, ie
      • English: ey
  • Old Frisian: ā
    • Saterland Frisian: Äi
  • Old Saxon: ōia
    • Middle Low German: ouwe, ou, ow, ō (in compounds)
      • Low German: Oie
  • Old Dutch: ōi, *owe
    • Middle Dutch: ooy, ouwe
      • Dutch: Ooij
      • ⇒ ooibos, landouw
  • Old High German: ouwa
    • Middle High German: ouwe
      • German: Au, Aue
      • Luxembourgish: A
• Old Norse: ey, ᚢ (u) — runic
  • Icelandic: ey f, eyja f
  • Faroese: oyggj f, oy f
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: øy
    • Norwegian Bokmål: øy
  • Old Swedish: ø̄
    • Swedish: ö c
  • Danish: ø c
    • → English: oe
  • Gutnish: oy
  • → Old Irish: í f
    • Irish: í f
  • ⇒ Old Norse: -ey (indicating island names)
    • → English: -ey, -ay (in place names)