u̯er-3: A. u̯r̥mi-s, u̯r̥mo-s (*su̯er-)

    u̯er-3: A. u̯r̥mi-s, u̯r̥mo-s (*su̯er-)

    English meaning: worm

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Wurm”

    Material: Lat. vermis (from *vormis, *u̯r̥mis); Goth. waúrms m. ‘snake”, O.Ice. ormr, O.E. wyrm, O.Fris. wirm ds. “ worm “, O.S. O.H.G. wurm m. ds.; Bal.-Slav. *u̯arma- m. “worm, insect” in Lith. var̃mas “insect, mosquito “, O.Pruss. wormyan voc. “red” (“wurmfarben”), ablaut. urminan ds., Slav. vьrmьje n. “Insekten” in aRuss. vermije, ukrain. vermányi “red”; with same meaning O.Fris. worma “ Purpur”, O.H.G. gi-uurmōt “red gefärbt”, O.E. wurma m. “Purpurschnecke, Waid, Purpur”, out of it borrowed O.Bret. uurm “dark”, Welsh gwrm “dark(blue)”, from which again O.Ir. gorm ds.; Gk. PN Fαρμίχος and ῥόμος (Eol. *Fρόμος from *u̯r̥mos) “Holzwurm” Hes.; compare from the g- or gh-extension in the same meaning M.Ir. frige f., nom. pl. frigit “Fleischwurm” (*u̯r̥g(h)-n̥tes), Welsh pl. gwraint “Wũrmer in the skin” (*u̯rg(h)n̥toi), galloLat. brigantes (*vrigantes) “Wũrmer in eyelid”; M.Bret. gruech, Bret. grec”h f. “Milbe” (from Brit. *vriggü, with intensification).

    References: WP. I 271, WH. II 760, Trautmann 342 f., Vasmer 1, 189, Frisk 501;

    See also: rhyme word to kʷr̥ mi-, above S. 649.