Where does “واورتون” come from?

واورتون (Pashto) comes from Pashto واوره, from Proto-Iranian wafrah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian wapras — a scattered pile, mound.

واورتون (Pashto): place/home of snow

Definitions

  1. place/home of snow

Ancestry of “واورتون”, step by step

واورتون traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Pashto واوره

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Pashtoواورهsnow
2Proto-Iranianwafrahsnow
3Proto-Indo-Iranianwaprasa scattered pile, mound

via Pashto ـتون

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Pashtoـتونa suffix added to nouns and adjectives to form nouns of location "the place of X"
Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian wapras →Every word from Proto-Iranian wafrah →Every word from Pashto واوره →