wes-pero-

Evening, night.

I. Reduced form *wes-.

1. Suffixed form *wes-to-.

a. west, from Old English west, west;

b. western, from Old English westerne, western;

c. westerly, from Old English westra, more westerly. a-c all from Germanic *west-.

2. Possibly Germanic *wis-, west, in Late Latin Visigothī, “West Goths” (Gothī, the Goths): Visigoth.

II. Basic form *wespero-.

1. pipistrelle, vesper, vespertilionid, from Latin vesper, evening.

2. Hesperian, Hesperides, Hesperus, from Greek hesperos, evening.

 

[Pokorny u̯esperos 1173.]

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