suavis

(Englisch)

sweet, pleasant, delicious

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
[ˈsʷaː.wɪs]
Etymologie (Englisch)

From Proto-Italic *swāwis, from Proto-Italic *suādwus, from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”). The extension of the u-stem into an i-stem is regular (compare brevis, tenuis) and must have occurred before the loss of *-d- in medial *-dw-.

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