- dheregh-
- dheregh-English meaning: thorn?Deutsche Übersetzung: in Namen beerentragender strauchiger Pflanzen, especially also von solchen Dornsträuchern, from which partly “Dorn”?Note: with formants -(e)s- and -no-. Dubious equatIon.Material: O.Ind. drükṣ ü “ grape “; common O.Ind. ĝh- > kṣ- phonetic mutation gallorom. *dragenos “thorn”, O.Ir. draigen m. “ blackthorn “, Welsh draen m., Bret. dréan “briar” (Celt. *drageno- from *dhregh-); perhaps also O.H.G. tirn-pauma “ of the cornel-tree “, tyrn, dirnbaum “ a cornel cherrytree “, Ger. dial. di(e)rle, dirnlein “ Cornelian cherry (dogwood) “, Swiss tierli, whether it is not borrowed from Slav. in very old time; Lith. drìgnės pl., Ltv. driǵenes “black henbane “ (compare Mũhlenbach-Endzelin I 498), whether it is not borrowed from Slav.; Russ. déren, derén “ Cornelian cherry (dogwood) “, Ser.-Cr. drȉjen, Cz. dřín ds., Pol. (old) drzon “ barberry “, kaschub. dřòn “prickle”, polab. dren “thorn”. Gmc.-sl. basic form could be *dherghno- and would stand admittedly in its meaning ‘sprout, twig, branch”, pl. “young shrubbery, bush” considerably differently colored Gk. τρέχνος (Hes., anthol.), τέρχνος (Maximus), Cypr. τὰ τέρχνιjα very close.References: WP. I 862 f., Pedersen KG. I 97, M.-L. 2762.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.