tor-, toro-s

    tor-, toro-s

    English meaning: loud, distinct

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “laut, vernehmlich”

    Note: old Abzweigung in the meaning “ piercing, shrilly, screaming” from *torós “ piercing “, s. *ter-4 “hinũbergelangen, hindurchdringen”

    Material: O.Ind. türá - “ piercing, shrilly, screaming”; Gk. τορός “ piercing, loud, vernehmlich” (also “quick, fast, agile”, compare O.Ind. tarás adj. “rash, hasty, piercing “ under *ter- “hinũbergelangen”), τετορήσω “werde loud and distinct say”; M.Ir. torm, toirm n., newer f. “din, fuss, noise” (*tor-smn̥), Ir. torann “thunder”, Welsh taran, O.Corn. taran, Bret. taran ds., Gaul. Taranis GN.; Lith. tariù, tar̃ti and taraũ, tarūti ‘say”, tarme ̃ “Ausspruch”, O.Pruss. türin acc. sg. “voice”, ettrüi, Inf. attrütwei “antworten” (formal as O.Ind. trü-ti “rettet”: tiráti ); Slav. tortoriti in Cz. tratořiti, Russ. torotóritь “ babble, chatter “, zero grade redupl. O.C.S. trъtorъ ‘sonus”; Arm. t”rt”rak “good speaker”, if from *t”urt”urak, IE *tortoro-; Hitt. tar- ‘say, name”.

    References: WP. II 744, WH. II 677, Trautmann 126, Vasmer 3, 126 f., Mayrhofer 1, 497;

    See also: compare tet(e)r- S. 1079.