mreĝhu-, mr̥ĝhu-

    mreĝhu-, mr̥ĝhu-

    English meaning: short

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “kurz”

    Material: Prükr. múhu-, Av. mǝrǝzu-jīti-, -jva- “βραχύβιος”, sogd. murzak ‘short”; Gk. βραχύς ‘short”, βράχεα ‘seichte Stellen”; in addition βραχί̄ων “ upper arm “, comparative besides βράσσων; Lat. brevis (at first from dem Fem. *bre(χ)u̯ī) ‘short”, brūma “Wintersonnenwende, winter, coldness” (*brevi-mü, *breu-ma “time the kũrzesten days”); maybe Alb. bryma “hoar, rime, frost, hoarfrost”, murriz “haw, hawthorn, thorn-apple, brier, whitethorn, short shrub”, mbrëmja “night, longest night” [related to Lat. bruma -ae f. “the winter solstice; in gen., winter, wintry cold”.] when night is the longest. Goth. gamaúrgjan “verkũrzen”, O.H.G. murg(i) ‘short”, murgfüri “frail, breakable”, O.E. myrge “pleasant”, Eng. merry.

    References: WP. II 314, WH. I 115.