vėl
Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of uncertain origin.
Smoczynski tentatively takes the word as coming from the same origin as vėlùs (“late”), but doesn't trace the words' origin further back.[1]
Buck derives the word either from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, roll, wind”) or its Lithuanian descendant vélti (“to full cloth”), noting that various Indo-European branches derive words meaning "again" from a root meaning "to turn back", via a series of shifts "(to turn) back" > "back again" > "again". For such a development, compare Italian volta (“time, occasion”), derived from Latin volvō (“to roll, tumble”).[2]
Another theory takes the word as possibly from Proto-Indo-European *-wē. Compare Latin vel (“or, even, and, either”) (-ve), Sanskrit वा (vā, “or”), and Ancient Greek ἤ (ḗ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
vė̃l
References[edit]
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “vė̃l”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 730
- ^ “vėl”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012