Ital. | venere | beauty, grace |
Lat. | venustas | beauty |
Lat. | Venus | goddess of beauty; the brightest star |
Lith. | venuSka | Waxwing, 329 (a particularly attractive bird) |
Skr. | vana | joy |
Germ. | wonne | rapture, delight |
Engl. | wonder | Germ. wunder marvel |
Talysh | va | snowy |
Skr. | svindati | to be white |
gaulois | vindo | white, Vindobona Vienna |
Franç.rég. | vindèse | vendace |
Franç. | vandoise | vendace, fish of the genus Leuciscus |
Engl. | vendace | vendace, a whitefish, Coregonus vandesius |
Etr. | Vand | goddess of Earth |
Anc.Greek | Vendon | a city of the Iapudes |
Anc.Greek | Vendus | city of the Venetes: Venice (see veneto, hereunder) |
Ital. | Venezia | id. |
Thracian | Bendis | Artemis |
Germ. | Winnile | the Lombards (HistoriaLangobadorum of Paul Diacre, 880, a Lombard historian) |
Lat. | Vindelici | a tribe "near the Bodensee" |
Germ. | Wend | the Sorabs or Wends, a Slavic people |
Lat. (Tacitus) | Venethi | the Wends |
Russian | ven | the Letts |
Alb. | end | (apheresis) pollen; tree blossoms |
Alb. | ëndë | the finest flour |
Alb. | venitem | I pale |
Ital.: Cosenza | vénetru | greenish yellow |
Ital.: Cassano (Cal.) | Vénotu | livid |
Franç. | vénétien (blond) | reddish blond |
Slavic | Vint | the Slovenes |
Ital. | Veneto | land of the Venetians (formerly inhabited by a blond people, prob. Slavic, cf. Vendus, above) |
Finnish | Venät | the Russians |