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  • va: from PIE base *we-nt-o- "blowing," from base *we- "to blow."
Cognates: cf. Avestan vata-, Sanskrit vatah, Hittite huwantis, Latin ventus, Lithuanian vejas "wind;" Lithuanian vetra "tempest, storm;" Old Irish feth "air;" Welsh gwynt, Breton gwent "wind" Sanskrit va-, Greek aemi-, Gothic waian, Old English wawan, Old High German wajan, German wehen, "to blow;" Old Frisian, Dutch wind, Old Norse vindr, Old High German wind, German wind, Gothic winds "wind."
English Cognate: wind, window, winnow, weather, ventilate (from Latin)
Source: Etymonline, Cheung


  • vac: from PIE base *wek- "give vocal utterance, speak."
Cognates: cf. Avestan vac- "speak, say;" Sanskrit vakti "speaks, says;" vacas- "word;" Greek eipon "spoke, said;" epos "word;" Latin vocem (nom. vox) "voice, sound, utterance, cry, call, speech, sentence, language, word," Old Prussian wackis "cry," German er-wähnen "to mention."
English Cognate: voice (from Old French), vox (from Latin), vocal (from Old French), vowel (from Old French), vocabulary (from Latin), vociferous (from Latin), vocation (from Latin), vocative (from Middle French)
Source: Etymonline, Cheung


  • varan, varun: from PIE base *ur- "to moisten, flow"
Cognates: cf. Avestan var "rain," Sanskrit var "water," Greek ouron "urine," Latin urina "urine," Lithuanian jures "sea," Old Eenglish wær, Old Norse ver "sea," Old Norse ur "drizzling rain."
English Cognate: urine (from Old French)
Source: Etymonline, Cheung


  • vatiş, vate: from PIE base *wek- "give vocal utterance, speak."
Please see the "vac" entry.


  • veng "voice": from PIE base *wek- "give vocal utterance, speak."
Please see the "vac" entry.


  • veng "empty": from PIE base *wa-no-, from base *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out."
Cognates: cf. Avestan va- "lack," Persian vang "empty, poor;" Sanskrit una- "deficient" Latin vacare "to be empty," vastus "empty, waste;" Old English wanian "to lessen," wan "deficient;" Old Norse vanta "to lack;"
English Cognate: wane, waste (from Anglo-French), vain (from Old French), vanity (from Old French), vacate (from Latin), vanish (from Old French), vacant (from Old French),
Source: Etymonline, Cheung


  • veyve, veyv: from PIE base *wadh- "to lead, marry a woman"
Cognates: cf. Avestan vad- "to lead," Sanskrit vadhu "bride, young woman;" Lithuanian vedu "I lead, marry;" Middle Welsh dy-weddio "to marry," Old High German widamo "wedding present."
English Cognate: wedding, to wed
Source: Cheung


  • verg: from PIE base *wlqwos/*lukwos, from base *wlp-/*lup- "wolf."
Cognates: cf. Avestan vehrka-, Sanskrit vrkas, Albanian ulk, Russian volcica, Lithuanian vilkas "wolf;" Old Perssian Varkana-, Hyrcania "district southeast of the Caspian Sea, literally wolf-land;" probably also Greek lykos, Latin lupus; Old Norse ulfr, Old Frisian, Dutch, Old High German, German wolf, Gothic wulfs "wolf."
English Cognate: wolf
Source: Cheung


  • vîst: from PIE base *wīḱm̥t- "twenty."
Cognates: cf. Avestan vīsaiti-, Latin vīgintī "twenty."
English Cognate: twenty
Source: Citation needed


  • viya: from PIE base *widhewo- "widow."
Cognates: cf. Avestan vithava "widow," Sanskrit vidhuh "lonely, solitary;" vidhava "widow;" Latin vidua, Russian vdova, Old Irish fedb, Welsh guedeu "widow;" Persian beva, Greek eitheos "unmarried man;" Latin viduus "bereft, void;" Old Frisian widwe, Middle Dutch, Dutch weduwe, Dutch weeuw, Old High German wituwa, German witwe, Gothic widuwo, Old English widewe "widow."
English Cognate: widow
Source: Etymonline


  • vil: from PIE base *wrdho- "thorn, bramble."
Cognates: cf. Old Persian *vrda-, Armenian vard, Latin rosa, Greek rhodon "rose."
English Cognate: rose (from Latin)
Source: Etymonline


  • vıraştış: from PIE base *werg- "to work."
Cognates: cf. Avestan vareza "work, activity;" Greek ergon "work," orgia "religious performances," organon "tool;" Armenian gorc "work," Lithuanian verziu "tie, fasten, squeeze;" vargas "need, distress;" Gothic waurkjan, Old English wyrcan "work;" Gothic wrikan "persecute," Old English wrecan "drive, hunt, pursue;" Old Norse yrka "work, take effect."
English Cognate: work, urge (from Latin)
Source: Etymonline, Cheung p. 425


  • viyal: from PIE base *wei-ti- "willow."
Cognates: cf. Avestan vaeiti- "osier," Greek itea "willow," Latin vitis "vine," Lithuanian vytis "willow twig," Polish witwa, Welsh gwden "willow," Russian vitvina "branch, bough;" Old Norse viðir, Danish vidje, Old High German wida, German weide "willow."
English Cognate: withy
Source: Etymonline


Çavkanî
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  • Etymonline. Online English Etymology Dictionary. <etymonline.com> by Douglas Harper.
  • Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture. Blackwell Publishing. 2004.
  • Nisanyan, Sevan. Etymological Dictionary of Modern Turkish. Adam Y. Istanbul 2007.
  • Watkins, Calvert. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Ed. Houghton Publishing. USA 2007.