wendoris

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Sudovian

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Etymology

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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

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wendoriſ

  1. (anatomy) belly, stomach

References

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  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.”.