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Aid

to say

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

aid — de Vaan

aid 'to say' < *hig-, due to the identity of some pr forms (*agis, agif) at an earlier stage» However, LIV reconstructs *h2eg- for the root of aid, in which case this theory does not work. The alternative is to regard egi as analogical after e.g.facio -feci (2) agmen < *ag-men and ex-amen probably < *ex~ag-(s)men. Ammentum / amentum is problematic next to agmen; EM explain it from *ap-mentum 'attachment'. But maybe … — [de Vaan, s.v. aid, p. 45]

In the wild

Aid Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.p15

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. aid (scan pp. 45-46; entry #26). Root candidates: *hig-, *h2eg-, *ag4i-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. aid (scan p. 42; entry #325).

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