ĝher-1

    ĝher-1

    English meaning: to yearn for

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “begehren, gern haben”

    Note: partly with forms from a basis *ĝherē(i)- : ĝheri- (see Persson Beitr. 728)

    Material: O.Ind. háryati “findet Gefallen, begehrt”; Av. zara- m. ‘streben, purpose “; Gk. χαίρω (*χαρι-ω), χαρῆναι ‘sich freuen”, χάρις f. “ pleasantness, agreeableness, Gunst”, χαρά̄ “pleasure, joy”, χαροπός “Kampfesfreude blitzend”, χάρμα n. “pleasure, joy, pleasure”; also χάρμη “fight, struggle”, originally “Kampfesfreude”? χαρτός “joyful, gratifying” (?); after Pedersen 5е décl. Lat. 73 here χρή etc. S. under ĝher-6; here after Leumann Homer. Wörter 318109f also δυσχερής “unfreundlich, unpleasant”, εὐχερής “ unworried, ungestört, light” (previously later auf χείρ “hand” bezogen); Osc. herest (bantinisch, for *heriest), Umbr. heriest “volet”, heris-heris “vel-vel”, Osc. heriam “arbitrium, potestatem”, Herentateís “Veneris”, prälign. Herentas, sabin. hiretum “decretum”; Lat. horior, -īrī “antreiben, ermuntern”, horitor, syncopated hortor, -ürī ds. O.Ir. gor “godly, pious”, goire “Frömmigkeit, Pietät”; M.Ir. do-gar “ unlucky “, so-gar “very lucky” (: Gk. χαρά̄); Welsh dyar “ sad “, hyar “pleasant” (I. Williams RC 40, 487); O.H.G. ger “begehrend”, gerōn “lust, crave”, O.H.G. girīg, O.S. gerag “ greedy “; Goth. faíhu-gaírns “geldgierig”, O.Ice. gjarn, O.E. georn “wherefore geneigt, whereupon begierig”, O.H.G. O.S. gern “begierig, eager after etwas”, adv. O.H.G. gerno, Ger. gern, Denom. Goth. gaírnjan, O.Ice. girna, O.E. giernan, O.S. girnean “lust, crave”. Maybe Alb. (h)uri “hunger” Perhaps here as dh-formation from the basis ĝh(e)rē -: Goth. grēdus “hunger”, grēdags “ hungry”, O.Ice. grüðr, grüði m. “greed, lust, hunger”, O.E. gnǣ d “greed, lust”, Ger. jrüt “hunger” (Berlin), O.E. grǣ dig, O.H.G. grütag “ greedy “. In addition as *ghrǝdh- Gmc. *graða- “begierig, rutting, in heat” inO.Ice. graðr “not verschnitten”, graðungr “bull”? In M.H.G. grīt m. “ eagerness “, grītec “begierig”, O.Ice. grīð f. “vehemency”, griðjungr m. “bull” ein ablaut. IE *ĝh[e]rēi-dh- or *ĝh[e]rī-dh- to suchen, wäre denkbar. M.Ir. grüd n. “love” is from Lat. grütum facere alicui and similar Wendungen borrowed (d instead of th after grad “gradus”).

    References: WP. I 600 f., WH. I 657 f.