Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/virъ
Proto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?]; compare Lithuanian vỹris (“whirlpool”), vỹrius (“whirlpool”).
Noun
*virъ m
Declension
Declension of *virъ (hard o-stem)
Descendants
- South Slavic:
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 522
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вир”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “вир”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka