u̯eren- (*su̯eren-)

    u̯eren- (*su̯eren-)

    English meaning: ram, sheep, lamb

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Widder, Schaf, Lamb”

    Material: O.Ind. *uran- (from *vuran-), acc. *uraṇam, nom. urü, from which uraṇa- m. “lamb, aries, ram”, urü f. ‘sheep”, in addition urabhra- m. “aries, ram” for *ura-bha- (as vr̥ṣabha- to vr̥ṣan-); compare Pers. barra (*varnak) “lamb”; pehl. varak “aries, ram”; Iran. vürǝn-jar-, vürǝ-ɣna- “Lämmerschläger” (Humbach DLZ. 78, 299 f.); Arm. gaṙn, gen. gaṙin “lamb”; Gk. Hom. (F)αρήν, gen. ἀρνός “lamb”, Cret. Fαρήν; also in tsakon. vanna, from lakon. Fαρνίον “lamb”, in addition -Fρην in Hom. πολύρρην ‘schafreich”, out of it late ῥήν), with ablaut. ἀρνειός “aries, ram”, whether not rather from *ἀρσνειός (*αρσν-ηFός) to ἄρσην “virile” (above S. 336); derivative *u̯rēnōn- in Lat. (as Gmc. Lw.) rēno “Tierfell as clothing , Pelz”; unclear as derivative Lat. vervēx, -ēcis (-īx, -īcis) “Hammel”; unclear is also das relationship to den auf *eru̯o(s)- “wool” rũckfũhrbaren Gk. words εἶρος n. “Wollfließ”, derived εἴριον, Att. ἔριον “wool”, Att. εὔερος, εὐερής ‘schönwollig”, Eol. ἔπ-ερος “aries, ram” (“whereupon Wolle is”), Ion. εἰρί̄νεος, Att. ἐρί̄νεος “from wool”; anlautendes F lässt sich not nachweisen.

    References: WP. I 269 f., WH. II 429, Specht IE Decl. 33 f., Frisk 137 f., 468 f.