Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/wr̥mis

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

Etymology

Possibly from the root *wer- (“to turn, to bend”).[1] Alternatively, a mutation of the synonymous *kʷr̥mis.[2]

Noun

*wr̥mis

  1. worm
    Synonym: *kʷr̥mis
  2. larva

Reconstruction notes

Several descendants appear to have been reshaped irregularly by a process such as taboo or analogy; compare the similar problems of *morwi- and *plúsis.

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Proto-Albanian: *wrimi
  • Proto-Armenian:
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *wārmi-, *wārmas
    • Lithuanian: var̃mas (“mosquito, horse-fly, fly, bug”)[3]
    • Old Prussian: wormyan (“red”), urminan, warmun[4][5]
    • Proto-Slavic: *vьrmьje (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Celtic:
    • Proto-Brythonic:
      • Welsh: gwraint
  • Proto-Germanic: *wurmiz[6] (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Hellenic: *wrómos
  • Proto-Italic: *wormis
    • Latin: vermis (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “worm”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vermis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 665
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “varmas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 490
  4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “wormyan”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 567
  5. ^ G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “wormyan”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 211
  6. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wurmi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 600
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