The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wódr̥
- Venetic · derived from[script needed]“water”
- Etruscan · derived from𐌇𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌀
- Latin · borrowed fromHadrianus“from the Roman harbor Hadria”
- English todayHadrian
From the Latin Hadrianus (“from the Roman harbor Hadria”), from Etruscan 𐌇𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌀 (hatria), possibly from Venetic [script needed] (adur, “water”), related to English water, Latin unda and Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr), all from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. Doublet of Adrian. See Adria.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*wódr̥ all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.