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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/virъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]; compare Lithuanian vỹris (whirlpool), vỹrius (whirlpool).

Noun

*virъ m

  1. whirlpool

Declension

Descendants

  • South Slavic:

References

  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 522
  • Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), вир”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress
  • Melʹnyčuk O. S., editor (1982), вир”, in Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrajinsʹkoji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1, Kiev: Naukova Dumka, page 379
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