kwet

root. say

Derivatives

• ᴹ✶kwentā “tale” ✧ Ety/KWET
  • ᴹQ. qenta “tale, story, account, history” ✧ Ety/KWET
  • N. pent “tale, story” ✧ Ety/KWET
• ᴹ✶kwentrō “narrator, reciter, minstrel” ✧ Ety/KWET; PE18/050; PE19/040
  • Ilk. cwindor “narrator” ✧ Ety/KWET
  • ᴹQ. qenso “minstrel” ✧ PE19/040
  • ᴹQ. qentaro “narrator, reciter, minstrel” ✧ Ety/KWET; PE18/050; PE19/040
  • N. pethron “narrator, reciter, minstrel” ✧ Ety/KWET
  • On. pentro “reciter, minstrel” ✧ PE18/050
  • N. pethron “narrator, reciter, minstrel” ✧ PE18/050
  • ᴹT. pentro “reciter, minstrel” ✧ PE18/050
• ᴹ✶kwetta “word” ✧ Ety/KWET
  • N. peth “word” ✧ Ety/KWET
• ᴹQ. qetil “tongue, language, talk” ✧ Ety/KWET
• ᴹQ. qet- “to say”
• N. pennas “history” ✧ Ety/KWET

Element in

• ᴹQ. lúmeqenta “history, chronological account” ✧ Ety/LU
• ᴹQ. avaqet- “to refuse, forbid” ✧ Ety/KWET

Variations

• PET ✧ Ety/KWET

say

root. know, understand

A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “know, understand” with derivatives ᴹQ. saira “wise” and ᴹQ. sairon “wizard” (Ety/SAY). It is probably connected to later words like Q. alasaila “unwise” (PE22/154) and S. sael “wise” (MR/305) in documents from the 1950s and 60s, as suggested by Carl Hostetter (VT41/18).

Derivatives

• Q. saila “wise”
• ᴹQ. saira “wise” ✧ Ety/SAY
• ᴺQ. sairina “magic, *magical”
• ᴺQ. saita- “to teach, *train, (lit.) make wise”
• ᴺS. saeda- “to teach, *train, (lit.) make wise”
• S. sael “wise”
• N. sail “wise”