- ner-1(t)-, aner- (ǝner-?)
- ner-1(t)-, aner- (ǝner-?)English meaning: vital energy; manDeutsche Übersetzung: 1. (“magische) Lebenskraft”; 2. “Mann”Material: O.Ind. nár- (nǘ ) “man, person”, Av. nar- (nü) ds. (O.Ind. nara-ḥ, Av. nara- after acc. náram, narǝm neologism); O.Ind. nárī, Av. nüirī “wife, woman” (previously ar. feminine formation); O.Ind. nárya-, Av. nairya- “ manly, virile “: probably also O.Ind. sūná ra- “voll from vitality, jugendlich”, Av. hunara- m. “Wundermacht”, O.Ind. nr̥tú- m. “Held”, sūnr̥ ́ tü “ vitality “ (su- bietet also das Celt.: O.Ir. so-nirt, Welsh hy-nerth “valiant, strong”); Osset.-kaukas VN Nart- (Iran. *nar-ϑra-); Arm. air, gen. aṙn “man, person” (z. Lautlichen s. Meillet Esquisse2 83), aru “virile”, whereof arvest, arhest “Kunst”; neuPhryg. αναρ “man”; luw. annar ds.; Gk. νωρεῖ ἐνεργεῖ Hes. (: Lith. nóras, see under), ἀνήρ, -έρα, ἀνδρός “man”, ἠνορέη “Mannhaftigkeit” (Hom.; ἠ- metr. lengthening), ἀνδρεῖος “ manly, gamy”, εὐ-ήνωρ “rich an vitality “, ἀγ-ήνωρ “gamy”, δρ-ώψ ἄνθρωπος (*νρ-ωψ “Mannesantlitz habend”); about ἄνθρωπος “person” (*ἄνδρ-ωπος with secondary Aspiration [?]) s. Kretschmer Gl. 28, 246, Schwyzer Gk. 1, 4264; Alb. njer “man, person”;Note: Probably Alb. cognate njeriu “man” derived from sabin. Nerius because of solidified Alb. pl. njerëz “men, people”, njerëzim “humanity” where -os, - us ending has been solidified. Lat. neriōsus “resistens, fortis”, Neriō, -iēnis “eine with Mars in Kultverbindung stehende goddess” (“*die Starke”), Nerō, Sabine = “fortis ac strenuus” (Schulze Eigenn. 315, 363, 485; sabin. Nerius stimmt to O.Ind. nárya-), Osc. gen. pl. nerum “vir, procer”, Umbr. nerf acc. pl. “proceres, principes”; Welsh ner “Held”, O.Ir. ner “boar” (also PN), Gaul. GN Nerios, O.Ir. nert (*ner-to-), Welsh Corn. nerth “Mannhaftigkeit, Heer”, Bret. nerz “ power “, Gaul. Nerto-briga, Esu-nertus etc., O.Ir. nertaim “I stärke”, Welsh nerthu ‘stärken, support “, Bret. nerza “festigen”; O.Ir. nür (*nōro-) “edel, großherzig”, Gaul. GN Nüria f.; about O.Ir. nür “bescheiden” s. S. 754; aGmc. Nerthus, eine goddess, O.Ice. Njǫrðr m. Göttername; Lith. nóras m. “volition”, nóriu, nore ́ti “wollen”, O.Pruss. PN Nor-mans, ablaut. Ner-man; Lith. nértėti, ablaut. nartìnti “be angry with”, į-nir̃tęs “ergrimmt”, nar̃tsas m. (*nar̃-sa-s) “boldness, rage, fury”, narsùs “fierce, grim”; O.Pruss. nertien acc. “rage, fury”, er-nertimai “wir enrage “; Slav. *norvъ m. in O.C.S. nravъ “custom”, etc.; Gk. Hom. νῶροψ χαλκός after Kretschmer Gl. 32, 3 ff. “Erz from Noricum”, also not here; after Kuiper “voll from vitality “.References: WP. II 332 f., WH. II 164 f., Trautmann 197 f., Kuiper Meded. Koninkl. Nederl. Akad. van Wetensch., Nieuwe Reeks, Deel 14, No. 5.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.