𐌅𐌖𐌚𐌓𐌖

Umbrian

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *woɣʷ(e)ro-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-. Related to Latin voveō, from Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō.

Adjective

𐌅𐌖𐌚𐌓𐌖 • (vufru) m (accusative singular) (early Iguvine)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: votive

References

  • Poultney, James Wilson (1959), The Bronze Tables of Iguvium, Baltimore: American Philological Association, page 332
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 691
  • Buck, Carl Darling (1904), A Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: With a Collection of Inscriptions and a Glossary, page 352
  • Gerhard Meiser (2017), “The Phonology of Italic”, in Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics‎[1], volume 2, De Gruyter Mouton, →DOI, →ISBN, page 745
  • A. C. Moorhouse (1940), “Observations on Chronology in Sound-Changes in the Italic Dialects”, in The American Journal of Philology‎[2], volume 61, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 315
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