vāvere

See also: vāverē

Latvian

Etymology

From a reduplicated form of Proto-Baltic *war-, from Proto-Indo-European *wewer-, from *wor-, *wer- (“squirrel, small forest mammal”), probably from *wer- (“to turn, to bend”) (perhaps because of this animal's flexible body). Cognates include Lithuanian voverė̃, Old Prussian weware, Russian dialectal веверица (veverica), вевёрка (vevjórka), Belarusian вавё́рка (vavjórka), Ukrainian віве́рица (vivéryca), веві́рка (vevírka), ви́вірка (vývirka), Bulgarian ве́верица (véverica), Czech veverka, Polish wiewiórka, Old High German eihhurno, eihhorno (< *aik-wer-nô, German Eichhorn, Dutch eekhoorn, Persian وروره (varvarah), Welsh gwiwer, Latin vīverra (“ferret”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vaːvɛɾɛ]
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Noun

vāvere f (5th declension)

  1. squirrel (family Sciuridae)
    rudā vāvere ― red squirrel
    klinšu vāvere ― rock squirrel
    vāveres ligzda ― squirrel nest
    vāvere čokstina ― the squirrel squeaks

Declension

Declension of vāvere (5th declension)
singular plural
nominative vāvere vāveres
genitive vāveres vāveru
dative vāverei vāverēm
accusative vāveri vāveres
instrumental vāveri vāverēm
locative vāverē vāverēs
vocative vāvere vāveres

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “vāvere”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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