Cognate Set 885 – Meaning: green
- IE-CoR reference form:
- uiridis
- IE-CoR reference language:
- Latin
- Ideophonic:
- no
- Parallel derivation:
- no
Found in 1 clade by 22 lexemes.
- References
- Ernout, Alfred and Meillet, Antoine: 739
S.v. Lat. uireō, -ēre 'être vert (en parlant des plantes)', with derived adjective uiridis 'vert'. No clear etymology. Celtic words such as OW guird 'herbida' are borrowings from Latin.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm: 782
S.v. 9368a Lat. viridis 'grün', 2. virdis.
- de Vaan, Michiel: 681-682
S.v. Lat. vireō 'to be green'. Unclear etymology. Lat. uiridis is a derived adjective, which has been compared to isolated forms in Baltic and Germanic (Lith. veĩsti 'to breed, rear', vaĩsius 'fruit', ONor. vísir 'sprout'(?), OEng. wīse 'sprout, stem', OHG wīsa 'meadow'), but the comparisons are very uncertain.