er-2, eri-

    er-2, eri-

    English meaning: goat; sheep

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Bock; Schaf, Kuh, Damtier”; perhaps ursprũnglich “Horntier”

    Material: Arm. or-oj (assimil. from *er-oj) “ a lamb, usually for sacrifice, a ewe lamb “, erinj “ young cow, heifer, calf, young bull, an ox, a bull, a cow “; Gk. ἔριφος (*eri-bho-) m. f. “kid, young goat”; Lat. ariēs, -etis “Aries, a ram; a battering ram; a prop, beam “ [for the kindr. forms arvix and harvix , in Varr. and Fest.; v. arvix; poet. aries] (a after aper, caper); Umbr. erietu “ arietem “; O.Ir. heirp (*erbhī-) f. “ a fallow-deer, chamois, antelope; as meat, venison, a she-goat; also a star in the constellation Auriga “, erb(b) “cow” (*erbhü), M.Ir. (with secondary f-) ferb(b) ds., Ir. earb, fearb f. “red deer, cow”, schott.-Gael. earb f. “roe deer”; to Celt. *erbü : ἔριφος compare Gk. σέρφος : σέριφος “insect”; after Kleinhans (Ét. Celt. 1, 173) here M.Ir. reithe “Aries, ram” from *ri-i̯o-ti̯o-; in O.Pruss. eristian “lambkin”, Lith. (j)e ́ras, Ltv. jêrs “lamb”, litt. ėrienà “lamb meat” = R.C.S. jarina “wool”, etc., Bal.-Slav. *ero- “ he-goat; billy goat “ and *jōrü- “year” (see above S. 297) have probably been mixed; O.H.G. irah “ he-goat; billy goat “ etc. is borrowed from Lat. hircus “a he-goat”.

    References: WP. I 135 f., WH. I 67, Trautmann 70.