bhrū-1

    bhrū-1

    English meaning: brow

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Augenbraue”

    Note: partly with initial vowel, IE o- or a- (full root form?); after Persson Beitr. 17 lies a dark composition part *okʷ- “eye” (with. consonant-Assimilation) before.

    Material: O.Ind. bhrū́ -ḥ f., acc. bhrúv-am “brow”, Av. brvat- f. (Du.) “ brows “, Pers. ebrū, brū ds.(Hũbschmann IA. 10, 24); Gk. ὀφρῦς, -ύος f. “brow”, figurative “ raised edge, hill edge “ (after Meillet BSL 27, 129 f. with Gk. vocal prosthesis?); Maced. ἀβροῦτες “ὀφρύες” (changed from Kretschmer Einl. 287 in ἀβρούFες; held on from Meillet, s.Boisacq 733 Anm. 3, because of the otherwise stated form ἀβροτες and because of Av. brvat-);

    Note: According to Gk. phonetic mutations -kʷ > -p, -gʷ > -b; hence Root okʷ- : to see; eye > Gk. ὀφθ-αλ-μός “eye”. From there derived Maced. ἀβροῦτες, Gk. ὀφρῦς, -ύος f. “brow”; common Gk. l > r phonetic shift. Maybe zero grade Alb. (*ἀβροῦτες : *vrenkula > vetulla f. “brow” : vrenjt (*vrenk-) “frown” common Alb. -kh > t phonetic mutatIon. : Khotanese: brrauka-lä “brow” : Sogdian: (Buddh.) βr”wkh “eyebrow” (*brū-kü-) : Other Iranian cognates: Khwar. (“)βrwc [pl.tantum] “eyebrow”; SO.N. vrīc “eyebrow”. M.Ir. brūad gen. Du., brüi, brōi nom. Du. f. “ brows “ (to diphthong s. Thurneysen Grammar 199), O.Ir. forbru acc. pl. (*bhrūns : acc. ὀφρῦς), forbrú gen. pl. “ eyebrows “; unclear are M.Ir. pl. abrait (*abrant-es or *abrantī) “ eyelids, brows “, likewise mbr. abrant “brow”, Welsh amrant “eyelid”, Specht (Decl. 83, 162) would like to put to Lat. frōns “ the forehead, brow, front “; but vocalism and meaning deviate; O.E. brū, O.Ice. brūn, pl. brynn “brow” (conservative stem, from *ƀruwūn-). Lith. bruvìs m. “brow”, žem. also brū̆ ne s pl., O.Pruss. wubri f. “eyelash” (seems a transposition from *bruwi); O.Bulg. brъvь (originally nom. *bry, as kry : krъvъ), skR.C.S. obrъvъ, Ser.-Cr. ȍbrva etc “brow”. An e- abl. bhru̯ē- with syllabic become r regards Trautmann KZ. 44, 223 in Lith. birwe = bruvìs. Toch. A pärwün-, В pärwüne (Dual) “ eyebrows “.

    References: WP. II 206 f., Trautmann 38.