derbh-

    derbh-

    English meaning: to wind, put together, *scratch, scrape, rub

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “winden, zusammendrehen”

    Material: O.Ind. dr̥bháti “joined, patched together, winded “, participle sándr̥bdha- “group of shrubs planted together”, dr̥bdhí- f. “ convolution, concatenation, daisy chain “, Av. dǝrǝwδa- n. “bundle of muscles” pl. “flesh (of muscles) “, O.Ind. darbhá- m. “ hassock, clump of grass, grass”, darbhaṇa- n. “netting”; Maybe truncated Alb. dredha “convolution”, dredh “curl” : O.Ind. dr̥bdhí- f. “convolution”, Av. dǝrǝwδa- n. “bundle of muscles “ pl. “flesh (of muscles)”. Arm. toṙn “σχοινίον, funiculus, a noose, halter, snare, trap” (*dorbh-n-); Gk. δάρπη “basket” is contaminated from *δάρφη and τάρπη ds. (Gũntert IF. 45, 347); O.E. tearflian (*tarbalōn ) “ roll oneself “, O.H.G. zerben, preterit zarpta refl. “ turn, turn round “; e-grade M.H.G. zirben schw. V. “ turn in circles, whirl”, Ger. dial. Swiss zirbeln ds., Ger. Zirbeldrũse, Zirbelwind (probably also Zirbel “ pineal “, see under deru-); zero grade O.E. torfian “throw, lapidate” (compare drehen : Eng. throw), as O.N. tyrfa “cover with turf”, O.N. torf n. “turf”, torfa f. “ peat clod “, O.E. turf f. “turf, lawn”, O.H.G. zurba, zurf f. “lawn” (Ger. Torf from N.Ger.); O.E. ge-tyrfan “to strike, afflict”; maybe Alb. diminutive (*turfel) turfulloj ‘snort, blow” : O.E. ge-tyrfan “to strike, afflict”. wRuss. dórob “basket, carton, box “, Russ. old u-dorobь f. “pot, pan”, dial. ú-doroba “low pot, pan”(“*wickerwork pot coated with loam “), wRuss. dorób”ić “crook, bend”; zero grade *dьrba in Russ. derbá “Rodeland, Neubruch”, derbovátь “ clean from the moss, from the lawn; uproot the growing”, derbítь “pluck, tear, rend”, Serb. drbácati ‘scrape, scratch”, Cz. drbám and drbu, drbati ‘scratch, scrape, rub; thrash”, with lengthened grade Russ. derébitь “pluck, rend” (perhaps hat sich in latter family a bh-extension from der- “flay”, Slav. derǫ dьrati eingemischt). S. Berneker 211, 254 with Lith.

    References: WP. I 808.