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3.5.2.2 v-n, v-nd White, light coloured; blanc, clair (cf. g-n white Listen 3.4.1.2 )

Ital.venerebeauty, grace
Lat.venustasbeauty
Lat.Venusgoddess of beauty; the brightest star
Lith.venuSkaWaxwing, 329 (a particularly attractive bird)
Skr.vanajoy
Germ.wonnerapture, delight
Engl.wonderGerm. wunder marvel
Talyshvasnowy
Skr.svindatito be white
gauloisvindowhite, Vindobona Vienna
Franç.rég.vindèsevendace
Franç.vandoisevendace, fish of the genus Leuciscus
Engl.vendacevendace, a whitefish, Coregonus vandesius
Etr.Vandgoddess of Earth
Anc.GreekVendona city of the Iapudes
Anc.GreekVenduscity of the Venetes: Venice (see veneto, hereunder)
Ital.Veneziaid.
ThracianBendisArtemis
Germ.Winnilethe Lombards (HistoriaLangobadorum of Paul Diacre, 880, a Lombard historian)
Lat.Vindelicia tribe "near the Bodensee"
Germ.Wendthe Sorabs or Wends, a Slavic people
Lat. (Tacitus)Venethithe Wends
Russianventhe Letts
Alb.end(apheresis) pollen; tree blossoms
Alb.ëndëthe finest flour
Alb.venitemI pale
Ital.: Cosenzavénetrugreenish yellow
Ital.: Cassano (Cal.)Vénotulivid
Franç.vénétien (blond)reddish blond
SlavicVintthe Slovenes
Ital.Venetoland of the Venetians (formerly inhabited by a blond people, prob. Slavic, cf. Vendus, above)
FinnishVenätthe Russians

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