euə-

To leave, abandon, give out, whence nominal derivatives meaning abandoned, lacking, empty. Oldest form *ə₁euə₂-, zero-grade *ə₁uə₂-, with variant form *ə₁weə₂-, colored and contracted to *wā-.

1. Suffixed form *wə-no-.

a. wane; wanton, from Old English wanian, to lessen (from Germanic *wanēn), and wan-, without;

b. want, from Old Norse vanta, to lack, from North Germanic *wanatōn.

2. Suffixed form *wā-no-. vain, vanity, vaunt; evanesce, vanish, from Latin vānus, empty.

3. Extended form *wak-. vacant, vacate, vacation, vacuity, vacuum, void; avoid, devoid, evacuate, from Latin vacāre (variant vocāre), to be empty.

4. Extended and suffixed form *wās-to-. waste; devastate, from Latin vāstus, empty, waste.

 

[Pokorny 1. eu- 345.]

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