Lemizh / English dictionary

wàx.

to speak/talk to someone-dat about something-acc; to say something-acc to someone-dat; to tell someone-dat (a story etc.-fact) about something-acc (see unit 14, ‘about’)
(all: in some language-ins);
the parole

wùx. language

wixfùw. telephone (⇐ ⇔ wàx fÌwi. ‘talk to someone far away’)

Etymology

< NLem wix‑a
< LMLem wìx‑a
< MLem wiix‑a ‘say’
< OLem wīh‑
< PLem *wiwh‑, i-reduplicated athematic present of
< PIE *u̯ekʷ‑

Cognates

Ved vívakti ‘speak’, Gk εἶπον ‘said, spoke’