- k̂er-4 and k̂erǝ- : k̂rē-
- k̂er-4 and k̂erǝ- : k̂rē-English meaning: to hurt, harm; to be spoiledDeutsche Übersetzung: “versehren”; intr. “zerfallen, vermorschen”Material: O.Ind. śr̥ṇǘti “zerbricht, zermalmt”, śī́ryate, śīryáte “wird zerbrochen, zerfällt”, participle śīrṇá-, -śīrtá-, śūrtá- “broke, decayed “, Inf. śaritoḥ; Av. asarǝta- “not broken, not mutlos gemacht” (= O.Ind. áśīrta-), sari- m. “piece, fragment, shard”, süri- f. “break, Untergang”; ein d(h)-present in addition is perhaps Pers. gusilem “rupture, slit, separate” from O.Pers. *vi-sr̥dümiy ; Gk. κεραΐζω “devastate, plũndere” (*κεραF-ίζω, due to a *κεραFο-ς; κερᾰ- = O.Ind. śari-), ἀκέραιος “unzerstört, unversehrt”, κεραυνός “thunderbolt, lightning” (*κερα-F[ε]ν-ος, actually “Zerschmetterer”); lengthened grade Gk. κήρ, κηρός, f. “death, ruin; Todesgöttin”, (Proto- Gk.ē; den Att. Spruch θύραζε κᾶρες (κῆρες) ... erklärt man from a sekundären nom. *καρ from *κᾰρς with ᾰ from dem einstigen paradigm κῆρ : *καρός); καριῶσαι ἀποκτεῖναι Hes. contains reduced grade, as Alb. ther; ἀκήριος “unbeschädigt, nicht dem Tode verfallen”, κηραίνω ‘spoil, schädige”, whereof ἀκήρατος “unverletzt”, also “pure, lauter” (also with ἀκήρατος “unvermischt” zusammengefallen); Lat. cariēs (*k̂r̥-i̯ē- to present *cariō) “das Morschsein, Faulsein”, cariōsus “mũrbe, morsch”, carius “tinea”; Alb. ther ‘schlachte, cut, bite” (*k̂r̥-), tsirrís “ prick “ (*k̂er-n-); O.Ir. ar-a-chrin (*-k̂r̥-nu-t) “zerfällt”, do-cer “er fiel” (*-k̂erǝ-t), crín “ wilted; faded, flaccid, withered “ (*k̂rē-no-s), irchre n. “Untergang” (*peri-k̂r-i̯o-m); Toch. A küryap, В karep “damage”.References: WP. I 410 f., WH. I 167 f., Thurneysen Gk. 437, 462.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.