tek̂Þ-

    tek̂Þ-

    English meaning: to plait; woodwork; carpenter

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “flechten, das Holzwerk of geflochtenen Hauses zusammenfũgen”

    Material: O.Ind. takṣati “behaut, bearbeitet, zimmert, verfertigt”, lengthened grade tǘ ṣ ṭ i ds., participle taṣṭá-, common O.Ind. -ĝh- > -kṣ- : Avestan -ĝh- > -xš-, -š- phonetic mutation Av. tašta- and tüšta-; also tašta- n. “ cup, bowl”; O.Ind. tákṣaṇ- m. “carpenter” (= Av. tašan- “molder, creator, god”, Gk. τέκτων), fem. takṣṇī́ (: Gk. τέκταινα), táṣṭar- “carpenter” (compare Lat. textor “Weber”); Av. tašaiti “zimmert, cuts, slices to, verfertigt”, taša- m. “axe”, Pers. taš ds., mp. tüšīδan “do carpentry, do woodwork “, ар. us-tašanü ‘staircase” (*”construction”); maybe Alb. tas “deep bowl” Gk. τέκτων “carpenter”, fem. τέκταινα, τέκμαρ, -ωρ “mark, token, sign”, τέχνη “Handwerk, Kunst, artifice” (*τεξνᾱ from älterem *τεκτ[ε]σνᾱ); common O.Ind. -ĝʷh- > -kṣ- : Anatolian – Tocharian – Greek -ĝʷh- > -kt-: -tk- phonetic mutation see Root ĝhðem-, ĝhðom-, gen.- ablative ĝh(ð)m-és : “earth” Lat. texō, -ere, -ui -tum “flax, wattle, braid, to weave”, gelegentlich “to build”, textor, -ōris “Weber”; tēla “Gewebe” (*tek̂slü = Slav. tesla, O.H.G. dehsala), subtīlis (*-texlis) “fine, thin, tender; feinfũhlig, sharp witted, shrewd”, subtēmen “Einschlag, Eintrag in Gewebe; Gewebe”; testa f. “Platte, shard, bowl”, therefrom testūdō “turtle, tortoise” (compare above Av. tašta-), perhaps also tēlum “Fernwaffe, Wurfgeschoß” (as “kundig zugeschnitzt, gearbeitet”); Maybe Alb. (*texere) tjerr “flax, wattle, braid” O.Ir. tül “axe” (*tōkslo-); O.H.G. dehsa, dehsala “Queraxt, hatchet, hack, mattock, hoe”, O.Ice. Þexla f. “Queraxt”; M.H.G. dehsen “Flachs break, rupture”, dehse “ spindle”, O.E. ðeox ‘spear, javelin”; Gmc. *Þahsu- in O.H.G. dahs, Nor. svin-toks “Dachs = badger “; Lith. tašaũ -ūti “hew” (originally iterative); Ltv. tešu (*teksi̯ō) and tèšu (*tēksi̯ ō), test and tèst “hew”; O.C.S. tešǫ , tesati “hew”, R.C.S. tesla “axe”, Cz. tes “Zimmerholz”, Russ. tës “gesägte Bretter”; Hitt. takš-, takkeš- “zusammenfũgen, unternehmen”.

    References: WP. I 717, WH. II 655, 656, 678 f., Trautmann 319 f., Vasmer 3, 99 f., Mayrhofer 468, 491, Durante, Ricerche lingunder 1, 234 ff., Pedersen Hittitisch 141 Anm. 1; Specht IE Decl. 239 f., Leumann Kratylos 1, 29.