wendoris

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wēˀdera, from Proto-Indo-European *úderos. Compare Lithuanian vė́daras (“sausage; (colloquially) belly, intestines”), Latvian vȩ̂dȩrs (“belly, stomach”), Old Prussian weders (“belly”). Nasalization could hypothetically be influenced by Polish wątroba (“liver”).[1][2]

Noun

wendoriſ

  1. (anatomy) belly, stomach
    • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 9, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
      brzuch — wendoriſ
      brzuch — belly

References

  1. ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 81: “wendoriſ ‘pilvas, l. brzuch’ 9.”
  2. ^ “vė́daras” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. s. wendori Bauch [...] Die Lautung von nar. wendori ist unklar, vl. ist es von poln. wątroba sf., wątrób sm. ‘Leber’ beeinflusst.”.
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