Cognate Set 885 – Meaning: green

IE-CoR reference form:
uiridis
IE-CoR reference language:
Latin
Ideophonic:
no
Parallel derivation:
no
Justification:
Originally a derived adjective from Latin uireō 'to be green', no further etymology (Ernout & Meillet 1985:739, de Vaan 2008:681-682). For the Romance lexemes, cf. Meyer-Lübke 1935:782.
Found in clades:
Italic
Revised by:
Matthew Scarborough
Found in 1 clade by 22 lexemes.
Language Lexeme Native script Phonetic Phonemic Notes
141   Catalan verd bɛrt bɛrt
136   French vert vɛːʁ vɛʁ
129   Italian verde ˈverde ˈverde
131   Ladin vert ˈvɛrt
144   Portuguese verde ˈveɾdɨ ˈveɾdɨ
134   Sardinian: Logudoro birde ˈbirdɛ ˈbirdɛ
133   Sardinian: Nuoro birde ˈbildɛ ˈbildɛ
143   Spanish verde ˈbɛɾðe ˈbeɾde
137   Walloon vèrt vɛʁ vɛʁ
124   Latin uiridis ˈwiridis ˈwiridis G.sg. uiridis
130   Friulian vert ˈvɛrt ˈvɛrt Msg., fsg. verde, mpl. verts, fpl. verdis.
125   Romanian verde ˈveɾde ˈverde
128   Neapolitan verde ˈvɛɾdə ˈvɛrdə
135   Anglo-Norman vert
139   Franco-Provençal vah ˈvax ˈvax
142   Old Spanish verde ˈbeɾde
138   Old Occitan verd feminine: verda
126   Megleno-Romanian ve̯árdi
140   Old Catalan verd bəɾt bəɾt
127   Dalmatian: Vegliote vi̯ard vjard
145   Portuguese: Brazilian verde
132   Milanese vért vert
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.