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On the etymology of the Latvian comparative vaĩrs, vaĩrâk

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Petit D.
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
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2011
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vol. 16
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issue 1
103-118
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Latvian is the only Baltic language that presents a suppletive variation between a positive and a comparative: adverb daudz ‘much’ / vairs or vairak ‘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 vairs, vairak. The aim of this paper is to propose a new etymology for vairs and to shed some light on the prehistory of this suppletive variation that appears to be unique in the Baltic languages.
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