varde
Latvian
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Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Baltic *war-, *wer- with an extra -de, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-, a stem used to form words that imitate human and animal voices (compare vārds (“word, name”)). Cognates include Lithuanian varlė̃ (with a different suffix).[1] A different hypothesis derives it from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *word-, which also yielded with Old Armenian գորտ (gort).[2]
Pronunciation
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Noun
varde f (5th declension)
- frog (small, tailless amphibian (order: Anura) which typically hops)
- zaļā varde ― green frog
- ezera varde ― lake frog
- purva varde ― marsh frog
- varžu kurkuļi ― frog tadpoles
- dīķī kurkst vardes ― frogs croak in the pond
Declension
Declension of varde (5th declension)
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “varde”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.
- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 227
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
Verb
varde
- inflection of vardit:
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Pronunciation
Noun
varde
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