bharu-, -u̯o-

    bharu-, -u̯o-

    English meaning: fir-tree, tree, forest

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Nadelbaum, Baum, Wald”

    Material: O.Ice. bǫrr m. “tree”, O.E. bearu, gen. bearwes m. “ wood, forest, shrubbery, bush “, O.H.G. bara-würi “ forest ranger...a keeper of a park, forest, or area of countryside, priest “; Slav. *borъ in R.C.S. borъ, pl. borove “ fir, spruce, spruce forest “, Ser.-Cr. bȍr, gen. bȍra “ pine tree “, Cz. bor m. “ pinewood “.

    References: WP. II 164, Trautmann 26 f., Hoops Waldbäume 362.