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Umbrian
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Etymology
From Proto-Italic *juwenkā. It's believed of the simplification from /ju/ to /i/ to be regular before /w/, but there are no other examples. Cognate with Latin iuvenca.
Noun
ivengam f
- heifer (young female cow)
References
- Ancillotti, Augusto, Cerri, Romolo (2015) “iuenga”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 26
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “iuvencus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317