vāvere

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See also: vāverē

Latvian[edit]

 vāveres on Latvian Wikipedia
Vāvere

Etymology[edit]

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 вавё́рка (vavjórka), Ukrainian віве́рица (vivéryca), веві́рка (vevírka), ви́вірка (vývirka), Bulgarian ве́верица (véverica), Czech veverka, Polish wiewiórka, Old High German eihhurno, eihhorno (< *aik-wer-nô, German Eichhorn, Dutch eekhoorn, Persian وروره (varvarah), Welsh gwiwer, Latin vīverra (ferret).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

vāvere f (5th declension)

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

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References[edit]

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