Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/udrós

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Etymology

From .

Adjective

*udrós

1. of water, aquatic

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Many descendants substantivised the adjective, forming a noun meaning "otter" or referring to some other water animal.

• Balto-Slavic: *ūdrāˀ (“otter”)
  • Lithuanian: ūdra
  • Slavic: *vydra (see there for further descendants)
• Germanic: *utraz (“otter”) (see there for further descendants)
• Hellenic:
  • Mycenaean Greek: 𐀄𐀈𐀫 (u-do-ro)
  • Ancient Greek: ὕδρος (húdros, “sea snake, water animal”), ὕδρα (húdra, “sea snake”)
• Indo-Iranian:
  • Indo-Aryan:
    • Sanskrit: उद्र (udrá, “otter, water animal”)
  • Iranian: *udra- (“otter”)
    • Avestan: [script needed] (udra-)
    • Middle Persian: ʾwdlk' (udrag)
    • Ossetian: уырд (wyrd), урдӕ (urdæ)
    • → Komi-Zyrian: вурд (vurd)
    • → Udmurt: вудор (vudor)
• Italic:
  • Latin: lutra (with initial l- from an unknown source)

References

• Abajev, V. I. (1989) Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume IV, Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 120