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Reconstruction:Proto-Albanian/wara

Proto-Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros, from *weh₁- (“true”). Cognate to Old English wǣr (“true, correct”), Dutch waar (“true”), German wahr (“true”), Icelandic alvöru (“earnest”), Proto-Slavic *vě̀ra (“faith/belief”), Latin vērus (“true”), Old Irish fír (“true”), Old High German wār (“true”).[1]

Adjective

*wara

  1. true

Descendants
  • Albanian: *ur

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “Proto-Albanian/wara”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 489
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