ter-2, teru-

    ter-2, teru-

    English meaning: feeble, fragile, weak

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “zart, schwach”

    Note: (to ter- “rub” as “ab-, aufgerieben, weakened “)

    Material: Gk. τέρην “tender”, sabin. terenum “molle”, Lat. (after tenuis reconverted) tener, - a, -um “tender, soft”; from the u-basis: O.Ind. táruṇa-, dial. tálina- “ young, tender” (m. f. “ youngling, girl”, n. ‘sprout, Halm”), Av. tauruna- “ young “, Osset. tärị n “knave, boy”; Gk. τέρυ ἀσθενές, λεπτόν Hes., τέρυες ἵπποι “abgejagte Pferde” (τερύσκετο ἐτείρετο Hes.: τέρυ = μεθύσκω : μέθυ), τερύνης τετριμμένος ὄνος, καὶ γέρων Hes.; Lat. tardus ‘slow, slack, zögernd” as do-derivative eines red.-stuf. *teru-?; O.Ir. terc “ sparse, small”; zur τέρην-group as “ young, tender; young Bursche, Tierjunges” also torno-s in Lith. tar̃nas ‘servant”, O.Ind. tarṇa-, tarṇaka- m. “Tierjunges, calf”; Arm. t”orn, gen. t”orin “grandchild, grandson”; Alb. trim “valiant, gamy; m. young man”, pl. trima “bewaffnete Gefolgsmänner” (tr̥mo-), if “young Bursche, jugendkräftig” die meaning-development war;

    Note: This seems wrong etymology since Alb. maybe Alb. trim “brave, not scared” is related to Alb. Alb.Tosk trëmp, Gheg trem “I scare”; Lat. tremō, -ere “tremble” from Root trem-, trems- : “to thump; to tremble” (see below). Arm. t”arm “ young, fresh, green”, perhaps O.Ice. Þyrma ‘spare, look after” as derivative eines *Þormaz “weak, tender”; is Lat. termes, -itis “abgeschnittener twig, branch” die lengthened grade in addition? men-forms in Gk. τεράμων “tender, light kochbar”, ἀτεράμων “hard, raw”, Hom. ἀτέραμνος “hard, unerbittlich, unbeugsam”; presumably Goth. Þarihs “ungewalkt, neu (from kerchief, cloth)”, eig. “fresh”.

    References: WP. I 728, WH. II 648 f., 665, 670 f., Mayrhofer 1, 483.