dheb-

    dheb-

    English meaning: fat, heavy

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “dick, fest, gedrungen”

    Material: O.H.G. tapfar “ burdensome, filled; heavy, weighty “, M.H.G. tapfer “tight, firm, thickset, full, weighty, signifying “, late “valiant (tight, firm in the battle)”, O.H.G. tapfare “mole”, tapfarī f. “moles”, M.L.G. dapper “ heavy, weighty, vast, grand”, Dutch dapper “valiant; much, a lot of”, Nor. daper “pregnant”, O.N. dapr “ heavy, elegiac, dismal, sad”. Perhaps O.N. dammr, Ger. Damm, M.H.G. tam ds., Goth. faúrdammjan “ dam up, hinder”, as dhobmó- here? O.C.S. debelъ “thick”, Russ. dial. debëlyj “ corpulent, strong, tight, firm”, abl. dobólyj ‘strong” (etc, s. Berneker 182); O.Pruss. debīkan “big, large”; perhaps also Ltv. dabl”š under dàbls “ luscious”, dabl”i audzis “ lusciously sprouted “, dabl”îgs “ luscious” (Berneker aaO.; after Mũhlenbach-Endzelin I 428 nevertheless, are Ltv. words probably to be connected with O.C.S. dobrъ); Toch. A tsopats “big, large”, tüppo “ courage “, tpär “high”, B tappre, täpr- ds., Pedersen Toch. 243, Toch. Sprachg. 23, 27, 29, Van Windekens Lex. 135, 148. doubtfully.

    References: WP. I 850, WH. I 437.