tet(e)r-

    tet(e)r-

    English meaning: to quack (expr. root)

    Deutsche Übersetzung: redupl. Schallwort “gackern, hũhnerartige Vögel under likewise”

    Material: O.Ind. tittirá-, tittirí-, tittíri- m. “ partridge, game bird “; Arm. tatrak “turtledove”; Pers. taðarv “ pheasant” (also Gk. τατύρας, τέταρος ds. are of pers. origin); Gk. τετράων, m. “ grouse “ (*τετραF-ων), τέτραξ (out of it Lat. tetrax) “Perlhuhn” (*tetr̥ks), τετράδων, τετραῖον, τετράων Vogelname by Hesych., τέτριξ “ein bird”; neologism M.Ir. tethra “crow” (*tetori̯ü), O.Ice. Þiðurr “ grouse “ (*ÞeÞuraz); O.Pruss. tatarwis “Birkhuhn”, Lith.tetervas ds., Ltv. teteris (gen. teterja, from *tetervis), Lith. tẽtervinas “Birkhahn, grouse “, tetirvà “Birkhenne” (Ltv. tĩtars “Truthahn” influenced from tītê t, s. ti-ti-), R.C.S. tetrěvi acc. pl. “φασιανούς”, Ser.-Cr. tȅtrijeb “ grouse “, O.Cz. tetřěv ds., Russ. téterev “Birkhahn” (tetërka “Birkhenne, Birkhuhn”); verbal Gk. τετράζω “gackere, gluckse (from the hen)”, Lat. tetrinniō, -īre, tetrissitō, -üre “ chatter (from Enten)”; also in other schallmalenden words kehrt t-r as characteristic element again, compare e.g. Lat. turtur “turtledove”, *storos ‘star”, the thrush-names (see 1096), streīg-, streīd(h)- “hiss, schwirren”, Gk. τρύζω “girre”, τρυγών f. “turtledove”, τερετίζω “zirpe”. Maybe Alb. turtull “turtledove”

    References: WP. I 718, WH. II 677 f., Trautmann 320 ff., Vasmer 3, 101; compare tor- S. 1088 f., Mayrhofer 1, 500.