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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">(human) voice, sound, speech</b> (Il.).<br />Other forms: <b class="b3">*οὐδήεσσα</b> is a suggestion of Aristotle for [[αὐδ]]., meant as [[ἐπίγειος]]; Beekes, Die Spr. 18, 1972, 127f.<br />Derivatives: [[αὐδήεις]] <b class="b2">with (human) voice</b> (Il.); denom. verb [[αὐδάω]], aor. [[αὐδῆσαι]] [[talk]], [[speak]], [[speak to]] (Il.). (Chantr.'s opposition of a god(dess) with a human voice, language as opposed to the language of the gods is wrong. It means <b class="b2">having a voice (to speak with)</b>, which may be [[human]] or [[beautiful]] as the context requires; s. Beekes, [[l.c.]] 128 n.3.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [76] <b class="b2">*h₂ued-</b> [[speak]]<br />Etymology: Long since derived from a root <b class="b2">au̯ed-</b>, seen in [[ἀείδω]], and with long grade in <b class="b3">ἀ(Ϝ)ηδ-ών</b>. An o-grade (<b class="b2">*h₂uod-</b>, perhaps with loss of the laryngeal: De Saussure's law) would be found in `<b class="b3">Ησί-(Ϝ)οδος</b> and in [[Ϝοδόν]] (written [[γοδόν]]) [[γόητα]] and [[Ϝοδᾶν]] (written <b class="b3">γ-</b>) [[κλαίειν]] H. (but Chantr. considers the glosses unreliable). The zero grade was seen in [[ὑδέω]]. The problem is that <b class="b2">*h₂u-ed-</b> beside <b class="b2">*h₂u-ei-d</b> is not easy, and that a long vowel in <b class="b2">*h₂u-ed-</b> is also not very probable; there is also discussion whether <b class="b2">*h₂ud-</b> gave <b class="b3">ὑδ-</b> (Beekes) or <b class="b3">αὐδ-</b> (Peters, Lar. 65ff, 72). - Outside Greek <b class="b2">*h₂ued-</b> perhaps in Skt. [[vádati]] [[speak]], with zero grade [[ud-]] in [[ud-itá-]]. (Lith. [[vadinù]] [[call]], [[name]], however, has <b class="b2">*-dʰ-</b>: Winter's law). Long grade e. g. Skt. [[vāda-]] m. [[sound]], [[call]], OCS [[vada]] [[calumnia]], OHG [[far-wāʒan]] [[deny]]. Uncertain Toch. A [[wätk-]], B [[watk-]] [[order]]. - S. [[ἀηδών]], [[ἀείδω]], [[ὑδέω]], [[οὐδήεσσα]].