erkʷ-

    erkʷ-

    English meaning: to shine; to praise

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘strahlen; hell klingen, lobpreisen”

    Material: O.Ind. árcati ‘shines; sings praise, greets, honors, venerates”, arká- m. “ray, lightning, sun, fire; song, bard, singer” (= Arm. erg), r̥c-, nom. sg. r̥k f. “radiance; poem, verse”, r̥kvan- “lobpreisend, jubelnd”; Arm. erg “ song “; O.Ir. erc ‘sky, heaven”, M.Ir. suairc “pleasant, beautiful, radiating” (*su-erkʷis); Toch. A yärk, В yarke “worship, veneration” (Pedersen REtIE. 3, 18); Hitt. ar-ku-u̯a-nu-un “I prayed” (arku̯anun); different Hendriksen 45 and 74.

    References: WP. I 147, Marstrander ZceltPh. 7, 360; compare above S. 65.