Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wern-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed words 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

Noun

*wern-

alder

Descendants

Albanian: *werna
- Albanian: verr
Armenian: [Term?]
- Old Armenian: գերան (geran)
  - Armenian: գերան (geran)
    - → Northern Kurdish: kêran
    - → Turkish: keran
Celtic: *wernā
- Brythonic: *gwern
  - Old Breton: guern, guaern
    - Middle Breton: guern
      - Breton: gwern
  - Old Cornish: guern
    - Cornish: gwern
  - Old Welsh: [Term?]
    - Welsh: gwern
- Old Irish: fern
  - Manx: farney
  - Scottish Gaelic: feàrna
- Gaulish: uerna, werna
  - → Old French: [Term?]
    - French: vergne
  - → Old Occitan: [Term?]
    - Catalan: vern
    - Occitan: vèrnhe

References

Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 158

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