Comparative evidence

h₁u̯eh₂, u̯eh₂

• Lat. uāstus -a, -um ‘desolate’, ‘deserted’, ‘forlorn’, ‘immense’, ‘huge’, ‘vast’ (OLD: 2015)

• Lat. uānus -a, -um ‘lacking solid content’, ‘insubstantial’, ‘hollow’, ‘empty’, ‘groundless’, ‘unreliable’, ‘vain’, ‘useless’ (OLD: 2010)

References

OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.