Audio Etymologies of the Day: a short thread on "one"
βOneβ (un, eins ...) comes from Proto-Indo-European *hβΓ³i-nos [oinos], like this (listen):
πhttp://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/one-from-PIE-h1oinos.wav
Two other forms of *hβΓ³i- are found in "eastern" I.E., *hβΓ³i-kos [hoikos] and *hβΓ³i-wos [hoiwos]. *hβΓ³i-kos developed into Mittanian aika, borrowed into (non-I.E.) Hurrian ππΏπ
aika:
πhttp://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h1oikos-to-Hurrian-aika.wav
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