teuk-

    teuk-

    English meaning: sprout, seed, offspring

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Keim, Same, Nachkommenschaft”

    Material: O.Ind. túc- f. “Kinder, progeny “ (besides túj- f. ds. with volkssprachlicher Erweichung the Tenuis); tokám n. “ progeny, Kinder”; tókman- n. “young Halm, sprout”, Av. taoxman- n. “ seed, sperm, germ, sprout”, pl. “ kinship”, O.Pers. taumü f. “ family, seed, sperm, germ, sprout”; khotansak. ttīman- n. “ seed, sperm “, Pers. tum, afghO.N. tōma “ seed, sperm “; M.H.G. diehter “grandchild, grandson”.

    References: WP. I 713, Vasmer 3, 149, Mayrhofer 508, 527;

    See also: perhaps to teu-k- “to swell”, above S. 1081 (tēu-).