- ĝher-3 and ĝherǝ-, ĝhrē-
- ĝher-3 and ĝherǝ-, ĝhrē-English meaning: to shine, shimmerDeutsche Übersetzung: ‘strahlen, glänzen, schimmern”Material: O.Ice. grár (*ĝhrē-u̯o-s), O.E. grǣ g (*ĝhrē-u̯i̯o-s), Eng. gray, O.Fris. grē, O.S. grü, grē, O.H.G. grüo (gen. grüwes) “gray”; Lith. žeriu,̀ žere t́ i “in Glanze strahlen”, že ruó ti “glow, sparkle, glitter”, ablaut. žarijà f. “glowing coal”, O.Pruss. sari f. “blaze, glow”; O.C.S. zьrjǫ, zьrěti ‘see, glance, look”, Russ. zrětь, Sloven. zrẹ́ti, Cz. zřiti, Pol. źrzeć ds., O.C.S. zorja ‘shine, radiance “, zarja “ray”, klRuss. zórja ‘star, stars, Morgenrote”, Russ. zaŕá “Röte am sky, heaven”, Ser.-Cr. zòra “Morgenrot”, Cz. zoře “aurora”, záře ‘shine, radiance, ray”, Pol. zorza “aurora”; O.C.S. pozorъ “θεωρία”, Russ. pozór ‘sight, Schande”, nadzór “Aufsicht”; Cz. pozor “attention, Acht”, názor “ outlook, Ansicht”; here also O.C.S. zrakъ ‘sight, form, kind of”, Russ. dial. zórok “look, front “, Ser.-Cr. zrâk “light”, Cz. zrak “vision, face, Sehkraft”, Pol. wzrok ‘sehkraft, face”; ablaut. O.C.S. zrьcalo n., Ser.-Cr. dial. zȑcalo, Cz. zrcadlo “mirror”; about Lat. grüvastellus s. WH. I 620. root extension ĝhrēi-: O.Ir. grían f. ‘sun” (*ghrē̆ inü); O.Fris. O.S. O.H.G. M.H.G. grīs “gray”, Ger. greis “gray, old”, wherefore probably also O.Ice. grīss “piglet”, O.S. grīs ds., Swe. Dan. gris “piglet, swine”. root extension (*gherēu-) : ghrū-. In O.Ice. grȳiandi f. “aurora”, O.S. gry “(of days) grauen”, Dan. gry ds., gry n. “das Grauen”; here also O.Ice. grey n. “bitch, wimp “, greyhundr “Windhund”, O.E. grīeghund “Windhund”?References: WP. I 602 f., Persson Beitr. 300 ff., Trautmann 366.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.