proper noun · femininefirst declension
Avāra
Avāra f sg (genitive Avārae)
Meaning
- The river Yèvre in France
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Avāra | — |
| genitive | Avārae | — |
| dative | Avārae | — |
| accusative | Avāram | — |
| ablative | Avārā | — |
| vocative | Avāra | — |
Origins
Possibly an old hydronym from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”), found in cognates such as Sanskrit वार् (vār, “water, pond”), Latin urina, Lithuanian virti (“to seethe, boil, flow”), Old Norse vari (“water”). One of the river's tributaries, Auron, could be a suffixed form of this root *aver-on-.