kʷer-1

    kʷer-1

    English meaning: to do

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “machen, gestalten”

    Note: perhaps originally from irgendeiner not more bestimmbaren Handwerkstätigkeit

    Material: O.Ind. karṓ ti (Imper. kuru), kr̥ṇṓti “makes, vollbringt”, participle kr̥tá-; kará- “tuend, making “, m. “hand, Elefantenrũssel”, küra- “ making “, m. “feat, dead, act”, kárman- n. “action, work”, karmüra-ḥ “ smith “; kr̥ti- “feat, dead, act”; saṃ-kr̥t “once”; besides with spari- ṣkar- and saṃ-skar-; Av. kǝrǝnaoiti “makes, vollfũhrt, tut”, kǝrǝtay- “feat, dead, act”, Infin. kǝrǝtǝ̄ e, O.Pers. akunavam, karta-; Av. čürü “Withtel, Hilfsmittel”, Pers. čür “Withtel”, cüra “Withtel, help, artifice”(= sl. čara “charm, spell”, see under); Osc. petiro-pert “viermal” (: O.Ind. saṃ-kr̥t); Welsh paraf “bewirke, verschaffe”, Verbaln. peri, wherefore redupl. (from a redupl. present?) probably Welsh pybyr “tatkräftig”; O.Ir. cruth ‘shape”, Welsh pryd (*kʷr̥ tu-) ‘shape, time”; in addition perhaps O.Ir. Cru(i)thin, M.Welsh Prydyn “Pikten”; Welsh Prydain “Britannien” hat die ending from Rhufain (Rōmanī) bezogen; O.Corn. prit, M.Corn. prys, Bret. pred “time”; M.Ir. creth “Dichtung” (*kʷr̥ to-), Welsh prydu “dichten”, prydydd “Dichter”; Lith. kuriù, kùrti “erect, to build, make”, out of it perhaps “fire anmachen, heizen”; Ltv. kur̃t “anfeuern, heizen”, O.Pruss. kūra “erbaute”; different above S. 572. Here with the meaning “es jemandem antun, verhexen”, also O.Ind. kr̥tyǘ (“action, feat, dead, act” and:) “Behexung, charm, spell” under likewise, Gk. τέρας n. “Wunderzeichen”, πέλωρ n. “Ungetũm, Ungeheuer”, τελώριος μέγας, πελώριος Hes.; das π- is Ä olismus ; πέλωρ, τέλωρ from *πέρωρ, *τέρωρ dissimilated; Lith.keriù, kere ́ti “jemanden enchant, in the Gesundheit injure, hurt”, kẽras “charm, spell”, Slav. čara f. “charm, spell” in O.Bulg. čarodě jь “ magician “, čari f. pl. “charm, spell, Reiz” etc.; perhaps with anlaut. s- (compare O.Ind. saṃ-skar-) O.Ind. ü-ścarya- ‘seltsam, wonderful “, n. “wonder, miracle”, O.Ice. skars n. “ein Ungeheuer; giantess “, skersa f. “ giantess “, skyrse m. “(ũbles) omen, sign, Phantom” (welche die suffixale zero grade of es-stem τέρας enthielten).

    References: WP. I 517 f., WH. I 165, 273, Trautmann 127.