su̯er-4

    su̯er-4

    English meaning: to cut, pierce

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schneiden, stechen, schwären, eitern”

    Material: Av. x ̌ara- m. “wound, Verwundung”; O.Ir. serb, Welsh chwerw “bitter” (*su̯er-u̯o-), originally probably “ burning, pricking “; Welsh chwarren f. “gland” (*su̯orsinü); O.H.G. sweran st. V. “ache, schwären, to swell”, swero “leiblicher pain, esp. ulcer”, Ger. Schwäre, Geschwũr, O.H.G. swer(a)do “leiblicher pain”, O.E. sweornian “ curdle, coagulate, harden “; O.H.G. swert ‘schwert”, O.E. sweord, O.Ice. sverð from *swer-ða- ‘stechende weapon”; Proto-Slav.. *su̯ara- “kränklich” in Russ. chvóryj, O.Cz. chvorū, ablaut. churavū ds. and Church Slavic chyra “ fragileness “; perhaps here Serb.-Church Slavic svrъdьlъ “borer”, Proto-Slav.. *svьrdьlo.

    References: WP. II 529, Trautmann 295, Krogmann KZ. 59, 204, Vasmer 2, 589, 3, 237, 243, Loth RC. 41, 233.