k̂erbero- and kerbero-

    k̂erbero- and kerbero-

    English meaning: variegated

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘scheckig”

    Note: (compare S. 573 k̂er- besides ker-6 in color names)

    Material: O.Ind. śárvara- “varicolored, dappled, dotted, spotted “, śárvarī f. “animal the Maruts, night” (v steht for b, compare Wackernagel O.Ind. Gk. I 184 and:) śabála-, śabára- (diss. reduction of ersten r) “varicolored, dappled, dotted, spotted “ (besides karbará-, karvará-, kabara-, karbura-, karbu- ds.); Gk. Κέρβερος originally “the Scheckige”; compare die mythologische turn from O.Ind. śarvarī; Slav. sobolь “Zobel” seems from dem Aryan to derive. The root kerb- seeks Lidé n Stud. 50 f. in O.Ir. corbaim “besmirch, sully” and Lith. kìrba (> Ltv. ḱirba) ‘swamp, marsh, morass” and contemplates *kerb- as extension the Farbwz. ker- (see S. 583 kers-); Mũhlenbach-Endzelin II 383.

    References: WP. I 425, Schulze Kl. Schr. 125, Specht IE Decl. 119, 262.