Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wer-

*wer-

1. to burn

• *wōr-
  • Balto-Slavic: *wōr-ei- / *wōr-i-
    • Latgalian: vōreit
    • Latvian: vàrît (alternatively a borrowing from Slavic)
    • Slavic: *variti (see there for further descendants)
• *wōrH-o-s
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Lithuanian: varùs
    • Slavic: *varъ (see there for further descendants)
• *wr̥H-
  • Balto-Slavic: *wirˀ-
    • Latvian: vir̂t
    • Lithuanian: vìrti
    • Slavic: *vьrěti (see there for further descendants)
• *werneh₂-
  • Celtic: *branos
    • Welsh: brân
• Unsorted formations:
  • Anatolian:
    • Hittite: [script needed] (urāni, “burns”)[1]
    • Hittite: 𒉿𒊏 (wa-ar, “to burn”)
      • → Old Armenian: վառեմ (vaṙem) (possibly)
  • Balto-Slavic:
    • Lithuanian: vírti, vérdu (“to cook”)

*wer- [2][3]

1. to cover, heed, notice

• *wr̥-néw-ti (néw-present)
  • Indo-Iranian: *wr̥náwti
    • Indo-Aryan: *wr̥náwti
      • Sanskrit: वृणोति (vṛṇóti)
• *wor-tus (o-grade)
  • Germanic: *warduz (“guard, keeper”) (see there for further descendants)
• *wer-eh₁-(ye)-ti (stative)
  • Italic: *werēōr
    • Latin: vereor
• *wor-o-s
  • Germanic: *waraz (“cautious”) (see there for further descendants)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Germanic: *warjaną (“ward off”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Germanic: *warnōną (“warn”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Germanic: *warnijaną (“worry, care, heed”)
    • Old Frankish: *warnjan (“to refuse, deny”)
      • Old French: garnir
        • Middle English: garnischen
          • English: garnish
      • Vulgar Latin: *guarnīre
        • Portuguese: guarnir
        • Italian: guarnire
  • Germanic: *warōną (“to watch, to protect”) (see there for further descendants)
  • Indo-Iranian: *wáras
    • Indo-Aryan: *wáras
      • Sanskrit: वर (vára)
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: ὁράω (horáō, “see”)
    • Ancient Greek: ὁρατός (horatós, “visible”)
    • Ancient Greek: ὅρασις (hórasis, “seeing, vision”)
    • Ancient Greek: ὅραμα (hórama, “sight, spectacle”)
    • Ancient Greek: ?οὖρος (oûros, “watcher, guardian”)
    • Ancient Greek: ?ὤρα (ṓra, “care, concern”)

*wer-

1. squirrel

• *wer-n-
  • Germanic: *aik-wernô (see there for further descendants)
• *wer-wer-
  • Indo-Iranian:
    • Iranian:
      • Persian: وروره‎ (varvarah)
• *we-wer-
  • Balto-Slavic: *wēwer, *waiwer, *wāwer
    • Latvian: vāvere
    • Lithuanian: vaiverìs (“male polecat or marten”)
    • Lithuanian: voverė, vaiverė, voverìs (dialectal), vėverìs (dialectal)
    • Old Prussian: weware
    • Samogitian: vuoverie
    • Slavic: *věverica, *věverъka (see there for further descendants)
  • Celtic: *wiweros
    • Brythonic: *gwɨwer
      • Breton: gwiñver
      • Welsh: gwiwer
    • Old Irish: íaru
      • Irish: iora
  • Italic:
    • Latin: viverra (“ferret”) (see there for further descendants)

• Watkins, Calvert. Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. 1969.