u̯ī̆ro-s (*su̯ī̆ro-)

    u̯ī̆ro-s (*su̯ī̆ro-)

    English meaning: man; warrior

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Mann”, actually “the Kräftige”

    Material: With ī: O.Ind. vīrá -, Av. vīra- “man, Held”, Umbr. acc. pl. n. u(e)iro “mancipia”, volsk. abl. sg. couehriu “*coviriō, contiōne”, Lith. vūras, Ltv. wîrs, O.Pruss. wijrs “man”; skyth. οἰόρ “ἄνδρα” (Herod. 4, 110), more properly οἰρο- = vīro-; O.Ind. virapśá- from *vīrapśv- a- (: Av. pasu vīra) “people and Vieh”, compare Umbr. ueiro pequo ds. With ĭ: Lat. vir “man”, in the älteren language also das einzige word for “ husband “, wherefore virügō “mannhafte virgin, Heldin”, virtus “Mannhaftigkeit, skillfulness, Tugend”, O.Ir. fer “man”, Welsh etc. gwr, pl. gwyr (to welchem the sg. gwr analogical dazugebildet is), Goth. waír, O.Ice. verr, O.H.G. O.S. O.E. wer “man”, Toch. A wir “ young “; Ger. Werwolf; probably to Lat. vīs “ power “ etc., *u̯ei- “auf etwas losgehen”, s. d.

    References: WP. I 314 f., WH. II 796 f., Trautmann 360, W. Schulze Kl. Schr. 398, Untermann, IF. 62, 127.