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French word verre comes from Proto-Indo-European *wed-, and later Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (Water.)
*wed- (Proto-Indo-European)
*wódr̥ (Proto-Indo-European)
Water.
*wed-ro- (Proto-Indo-European)
*wedro- (Proto-Italic)
*wedrom (Proto-Italic)
vitrum (Latin)
A woad; a plant used for dying blue. Glass. Woad; a blue dye used by the Britons made from that plant.
voirre (Old French)
Glass (hard almost transparent substance).
verre (French)
(countable) Object in this substance. (optics) glass. (usually, uncountable) glass (substance). Glass (drinking vessel). Its content. Lens. Symbol of fragility. Symbol of transparency.