ēudh-, ōudh-, ūdh-

    ēudh-, ōudh-, ūdh-

    English meaning: udder

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Euter”

    Grammatical information: r/n-stem; O.Ind. occasional forms of -es- stem (secondary?), Slav. men-stem.

    Material: O.Ind. ū́dhar (and ūdhas) n., gen. ūdhná ḥ “udder”; Gk. οὖθαρ, οὖθατος (α = -n̥) “udder”; Lat. ūber, -eris n. “ a teat, pap, dug, udder, suckling brost; fullness, wealth” (ūbertüs “richness, fulness”; out of it ūber adj. “rich, fertile” inferred after paupertas : pauper); O.H.G. dat. ūtrin, M.H.G. ūter, iuter, Swiss ūtǝr, O.S. O.E. ūder n. “udder”, next to which the changing by ablaut *ēudhr- in O.Ice. ju(g)r ds. and O.S. ieder, O.Fris. iüder ds.; Lith. ūdruó -ju, -ti “ udders, be pregnant”; Slav. *vymę in Cz. vūmě, Ser.-Cr. vȉme “udder” (*ūdh-men-);

    Note: Wrong etymology as Slav. like Illyr. -Balt use prothetic v- before bare initial vowels. besides -m- < -mb-, -b- common Alb. phonetic mutation, hence, a reduced Lat. uber “udder” > Slav. vymę probably as “the swelling, the swollen”, compare Russ. úditь or údětь “to bloat, bulge, swell”, also perhaps the volsk. FlN Oufens, Ufens.

    References: WP. I 111, Trautmann 334, Schwyzer Gk. I 518.