Pêvek:Etîmolojiya peyvên zazakî/W

• wa: from PIE base *swesor "sister."

Cognates: cf. Avestan xvanhar-, Sanskrit svasar-, Latin soror, Russian sestra, Lithuanian sesuo, Old Irish siur, Welsh chwaer, Greek eor Old Saxon swestar, Old Frisian swester, Middle Dutch suster, Dutch zuster, Old High German swester, German Schwester, Gothic swistar "sister."

English Cognate: sister, sorority (from Latin)

Source: etymonline

• wendiş: from PIE base *swen- "sound."

Cognates: cf. Avestan xvan "to sound," Sanskrit svanati "it sounds," svanah "sound, tone;" Latin sonus "sound," sonare "to sound;" Old Irish senim "the playing of an instrument;" Old English geswin "music, song," swinsian "to sing;" Old Norse svanr, Old English swan "swan, the sounding bird"

English Cognate: swan, sound (from Latin), sonic (from Latin)

Source: etymonline

• wesar: from an Arya (Indo-Iranian) base *upa-serda- (upa part is from PIE base *uper "over.")

Cognates: cf. Talishi avasor, New Persian absalan, Pashtun psarlay "spring." Cognates for *upa: Sanskrit upari, Avestan upairi "over, above, beyond," Latin super, Greek hyper, Old English ofer "over," Gothic ufaro "over, across,"

English Cognate: super (from Latin), summit (from Latin), superb (from Latin), hyper- (from Greek)

Source: etymonline, Paul p.177, Watking p.94

Çavkanî

• Cheung, Johnny. Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb. Boston: Brill. 2007.
• Etymonline. Online English Etymology Dictionary. <etymonline.com> by Douglas Harper.
• Fortson, Benjamin W. Indo-European Language and Culture. Blackwell Publishing. 2004.
• Nisanyan, Sevan. Etymological Dictionary of Modern Turkish. Adam Y. Istanbul 2007.
• Watkins, Calvert. The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. Second Ed. Houghton Publishing. USA 2007.