tres-, ters- (*teres-)

    tres-, ters- (*teres-)

    English meaning: to tremble

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “zittern”

    Material: O.Ind. trásati “zittert” (= Gk. τρέω), trastá- “zitternd” Kaus. trüsayati “makes erzittern”; Av. taršta- (ar. *tr̥ṣta- “timorous”), tǝrǝsaiti, ар. tarsatiy “fũrchtet” (*tr̥s-[s]k̂ō) = Lith. trišù ); Kaus. Av. Þrü̊ ŋhayete “versetzt in fright”; perhaps Arm. erer “Erschũtterung, Beben, Zittern” (*tres-ri-); Lat. terreo, -ēre “in Schrecken versetzen, daunt, scare” (das e instead of kausativen o derives from:) terror “fright”; Umbr. tursitu “terrētō, fugütō”; Gk. τρέω (Aor. Hom. τρέσσαι) “tremble, flee”, ἔτερσεν ἐφόβησεν Hes., ἄτρεστος “unerschrocken”, τρηρός (*τρασρός), τρήρων “timorous, fleeting “; M.Ir. tarrach “timorous” (*tr̥s-üko-); O.E. ðrǣ s “fringe” (compare O.Ind. trasaṇa-m “eine bewegliche, zitternde ornament, decoration”); Lith. trisù “tremble” (*tr̥s-[s]k̂ō); Ltv. trìsas f. pl. “Zittern”, trisêt “tremble, quiver”, perhaps Lith. tresiù, tre ̃sti “läufig sein”.

    References: WP. I 760, WH. II 674 f., Trautmann 329;

    See also: to 1. ter-1 “ wriggle “.