Where does “vere” come from?
vere (Romanian) comes from Romanian vară, from Romanian -ă, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
vere (Romanian): vocative of văr; plural of vară
Definitions
- vocative of văr; plural of vară
Ancestry of “vere”, step by step
vere traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian vară
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | vară | summer; female cousin |
| 2 | Romanian | -ă | Forms certain female equivalent nouns |
| 3 | Latin | illa | nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Romanian văr
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | văr | A male cousin |
| 2 | Old Church Slavonic | варъ | — |
| 3 | Proto-Slavic | varъ | boiled liquid; lime |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wēr- | true |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |