dhu̯ergh- : drugh-

    dhu̯ergh- : drugh-

    English meaning: low (in stature), crippled

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “zwerghaft, verkrũppelt”?

    Material: Bartholomae IF. 12, 131 Anm. connects Av. drva- (i.e. druɣva-), which is reckoned under other names of physical ailments and perhaps stands for “ dwarfish, crippled “, with O.N. dvergr, O.E. dweorg, Eng. dwarf, M.L.G. dwerch, nnd. dwarf, O.H.G. twerc, M.H.G. twerc, -ges, Ger. Zwerg, wherefore zero grade *durgī in O.N. dyrgja “dwarf, midget”, N.Ger. dorf; after Krogmann (KZ. 62, 143) in addition Ltv. drugt ‘sink down” (see above dhreugh-1). Otherwise for Gmc. the interpretation would derive as “ creature of deception “ with regard to to O.Ind. dhvarás- “a kind of female daemon “, root dhu̯er- “bring down through deception“; it could have derived from dhu̯er- then with the same -gh, which agrees also with the root form dhreu-gh- (dhu̯er-gh- : dhu̯r̥gh- : dhrugh-, dhreugh-); also latter deriving from appellation for puckish creature of deceptIon.

    References: WP. I 871 f.