@article{a0e1332e-08c3-4028-98ae-e73728374387,
author = {Daniel Petit},
title = {ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE LATVIAN COMPARATIVE vaĩrs, vaĩrâk},
journal = {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia},
volume = {2011},
number = {Volume 16, Issue 1},
year = {2011},
issn = {1427-8219},
pages = {103-118},keywords = {language contact; areal linguistics; linguistic history; etymology; diachrony},
abstract = {Latvian is the only Baltic language that presents a suppletive variation between a positive and a comparative: adverb daũdz ‘much’ / vaĩrs or vaĩrâk ‘more’. The question arises whether this composite paradigm is an innovative feature of the Latvian language or could be traced back to Proto-Baltic, and any answer to this question is strongly dependent on how we explain the origin of the Latvian comparative vaĩrs, vaĩrâk. The aim of this paper is to propose a new etymology for vaĩrs and to shed some light on the prehistory of this suppletive variation that appears to be unique in the Baltic languages.},
doi = {10.4467/20843836SE.11.008.0054},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/artykul/on-the-etymology-of-the-latvian-comparative-vairs-vairak}
}