*w-H-  “lack; empty, waste”

PMA:
  una             “decreased, inferior, wanting”    Sanskrit

DSDE:
  *ew-, *ew&-, 
  *wa:- *w&-      “lack; empty”                     Proto-IndoEuropean
    with sufix
  *w-ono-s, 
  *w&-no-s                                          Proto-IndoEuropean
  eu:nis          “bereft, lacking”                 Greek
  unain           “empty”                           Armenian
  u:ná-           “lacking”                         Sanskrit
    perhaps
  vanus           “empty”                           Latin
  *wana-                                            Proto-Germanic
  van-             pejorative prefix                Danish
  wan-             id.                              Old Danish
  van-             id.                              Norwegian
  van-             id.                              Swedish
  van-             id.                              Old Norse
  wan-             id.                              Old Saxon
  wan-             id.                              Middle Low German
  wan(a)-          id.                              Old High German
  wahn-            id.                              German
  wan-             id.                              Old English
  vanr            “lacking”                         Old Norse
  wans             id.                              Gothic
  wan              id.                              Old Saxon
  wan              id.                              Old High German
  wan              id.                              Old English

VISW:
  *w-H.-                                            pre-IndoEuropeanAfroAsiatic
  *wa:-
    reduced
  *wa-, *u:-      “vacuus, vastus”                  Proto-IndoEuropean
    n-ptc.
  va:nus          “empty, without content, void”    Latin
    reduced
  u:ná-           “lacking”                         Sanskrit
    + s-
  *wa:s-                                            Proto-IndoEuropean
    ptc.
  va:stus         “deserted, empty, laid waste”     Latin
  wo:sti          “deserted”                        Old Saxon
  we:ste           id.                              Old English
  wuosti          “deserted, empty, uninhabited”    Old High German
    + g^- or g- >                                   pre-IndoEuropean-AfroAsiatic
    + k^- or k-                                     Proto-IndoEuropean
  vak-                                              Latin
  vacuus          “empty, denuded, unoccupied”      Latin
  vaca:re         “be empty, unoccupied”            Latin
  =
  *w-H.-                                            Semitic
    either
    + g^- >       as in Latin vacuus                pre-IndoEuropean-AfroAsiatic
    or
    + d-  >       in old alteration with 
                  /n/ in Latin va:nus               pre-IndoEuropean-AfroAsiatic
    + d-                                            Semitic
  waH.duN         “lonely, unique”                  Arabic
  waH.iduN        “alone, single”      
  waH.i:duN       “alone, solitary, lonely”         Arabic
  ya:Hi:ð         “alone, lonely, deserted”         Hebrew
  iH.iðå:         “unique, lonely”                  Syrian
  iH.iðåyå:       “unique, hermit”                  Syrian
  y-H.-d-         “be one, alone”
          pa.     “unite”                           Syrian
          pa.      id.                              Jewish Aramaic
          pi.      id., “leave alone”               Modern Hebrew
    + k^-  >                                        pre-IndoEuropea-AfroAsiatic
    + s^-                                           Semitic
 (:
    + s-                                            pre-IndoEuropean-AfroAsatic
 )
  waH.is^uN       “desolate, deserted, destitute 
                   of human beings, lone”           Arabic

  cf.
  *w-s-           “water, wasteland”


PMA:
  unuhi-          “to take away, reduce”            Marquesas  
  una-            “to pass away”                    Tahiti 
  un-sik-         “smallness”                       
  un-siyami-      “stunted growth, frustration”     Tagalog 
  un-tos-         “dimunition, discount, decrease”  Tagalog


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