vāvere

See also: vāverē

Latvian

Vāvere

Etymology

From a reduplicated form of Proto-Baltic *war-, from Proto-Indo-European *wewer-, from *wor-, *wer- (squirrel, small forest mammal), probably from *wer- (to turn, to bend) (perhaps because of this animal's flexible body). Cognates include Lithuanian voverė̃, Old Prussian weware, Russian dialectal веверица (veverica), вевёрка (vevjórka), Belarusian вавёрка (vavjórka), Ukrainian віверица (vivéryca), вевірка (vevírka), вивірка (vývirka), Bulgarian веверица (véverica), Czech veverka, Polish wiewiórka, Old High German eihhurno, eihhorno (< *aik-wer-nan, German Eichhorn, Dutch eekhoorn, Persian وروره (varvarah), Latin vīverra (ferret).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vaːvɛɾɛ]
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Noun

vāvere f (5th declension)

  1. squirrel (family Sciuridae)
    rudā vāverered squirrel
    klinšu vāvererock squirrel
    vāveres ligzdasquirrel nest
    vāvere čokstinathe squirrel squeaks

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), vāvere”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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