Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wern-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms 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-

a kind of tree, perhaps alder
Synonym: *h₂élis-

Descendants

Proto-Albanian: *werna
- Albanian: verr
Proto-Armenian:
- Old Armenian: գերան (geran)
  - Armenian: գերան (geran)
    - → Northern Kurdish: kêran
    - → Turkish: keran
Proto-Celtic: *wernā (see there for further descendants)
>? Proto-Indo-Iranian:
- Proto-Indo-Aryan:
  - Sanskrit: वरण (varaṇa, “sacred garlic pear, Crateva roxburghii?”)

References

Mallory, J. P. with 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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