- ĝher-6 (ĝherǝ- : ĝhrē-?)
- ĝher-6 (ĝherǝ- : ĝhrē-?)English meaning: short, smallDeutsche Übersetzung: “kurz, klein, gering” (also “knapp become, fehlen, nötig sein”?)Material: Gk. χείρων (Eol. χέρρων) from *χερι̯ων “bad”, in addition superl. χείριστος and die Hom. compar. χερείων, χέρηες etc. (see Leumann Mus. Helv. 2, 2 ff., different Schwyzer Gk. I 538), χειρόω, -όομαι “ũberwältige”. In addition perhaps χρή “es is notig”, χρεώ “Bedũrfnis, Bedarf, need, desire”, *χρῆος, χρεῖος, χρέος, χρέως “Bedũrfnis, desire, blame”, χρῆσθαι “ take advantage of, benutzen etc.” (< *χρηι̯εσθαι), besides dial. χρη-εῖσθαι, χρῆμα “thing (die man used), Ereignis”, pl. “fortune, Geld, possession “; s. different under ĝher-1; O.Ir. gair ‘short” (*ĝheri-s), gaire “Lebenskũrze”, O.Ir. garait, Ir. goirid ‘short”. root extension ĝheres-, ĝhres-, ĝhers-: O.Ind. hrasvá- “minder, short, small”, compounds hrásīyaṁs-, superl. hrásiṣṭha-, hrasati “nimmt ab, wird kũrzer”, Kaus. hrüsayati “vermindert”, Av. zara-hehīš “die mindere, schwächere” (for zra . .); M.Ir. gerr ‘short”, gerraim “I kũrze, cut, bite ab”, gerrün “(verschnittenes) horse”.References: WP. I 604f., Schwyzer Gk. I 538 under Anm. 10, 539, 675 under Anm. 8.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.