Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *wurmizScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_wurmiz
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ῥόμος*wr̥miswormvar̃masbug, flywormyanred
nounmasculinei-stemwormserpent, snake, dragonFrom Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (‘worm’). Cognate with Latin vermis, Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos), Lithuanian var̃mas (‘bug, fly’), Old Prussian wormyan (‘red’), Old East Slavic *вьрмиѥ (*vĭrmije) (whence Ukrainian вермяний (vermjanyj, ‘red’)). The meaning red developed from a colour that one gains by a scale insect.