Etymology

vardo

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Today it means: A traditional horse-drawn wagon used by the Romani. Full definition →

Angloromani vardo ← Romani vordon ← Proto-Iranian *wart-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wert-“to turn, rotate”
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranian · derived from*wart-
  3. Proto-Iranian · derived from*wart-“to turn”
  4. Romani · derived fromvordon
  5. Angloromani · borrowed fromvardo
  6. English todayvardo

Borrowed from Angloromani vardo, from Romani vordon, borrowed from Iranian (compare Ossetian уӕрдон (wærdon)), from Proto-Iranian *wart- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wart-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, rotate”).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*wert- all →

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