Note 22 — NOTE UPON THE SATURNIAN METRE
Reading edition
Sio is an old Latin word. See Buecheler's paper Altes Latein in Rheinisches Museum 43 p. 480. Siat is glossed in Philoxenus by οὐρεῖ, ἐπὶ βρέφους. In common speech it survived only in the language of the nursery and in this connexion. But it is closely related to a number of words, in various Indo-Germanic languages, of which the root-meaning is 'moisture'. See Walde, Lateinisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch2 p. 708.