- ers- : orsos
- ers- : orsosEnglish meaning: behind; tailDeutsche Übersetzung: “Hinterer, Schwanz”Material: Arm. oṙ “ buttocks “ (mostly pl. oṙ-k”, i-stem); Gk. ὄρρος m. “ buttocks “ (in addition οὐρά: f. “tail” from *orsi̯ü) = O.H.G. ars, O.E. ears m., O.Ice. ars, rass “ buttocks” = Hitt. a-ar-ra-áš (arras), dat. ar-ri-iš-ši (arrisi); whose -si enkLith. pronoun; e-grade O.Ir. err (*ersü) f. “tail, end” (also of chariot), therefrom eirr “ chariot combatant “ (*ers-et-s), gen. erred;References: WP. I 138, Couvreur H̯ 98, Pedersen KG. II 101.See also: it is often placed “elevation, protrusion, preceding body part “ to er-3 (above S. 326).
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.