ĝherzd(h), gen. ĝhr̥zd(h)-es; ĝherzdā

ĝherzd(h), gen. ĝhr̥zd(h)-es; ĝherzdā:     ĝherzd(h), gen. ĝhr̥zd(h)-es; ĝherzdā

    English meaning: barley, grain, spike

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “die Stachlige, das Grannenkorn, Gerste”

    Material: Gk. κρῖ n. (conservative stem, as Alb. drith) “barley”, probably from IE *ĝhr̥zdh, from which Proto-Gk. *kr̥̄th; κρῑθή, mostly pl. “barley”, sg. (later covered) “Gerstenkorn”; Alb. drith (*ĝhr̥zdh), drithë m. n. “barley, corn, grain “; Lat. hordeum (dial. fordeum) n. “barley” (from *ĝhr̥zd(h)ei̯om “Grannengetreide”, substantiviertes Stoffadjektiv); zero grade: O.H.G. gersta “barley” (*ĝherzdü). In addition perhaps Gk. ἄ-χερδος f. “wild Birnbaum, Hagedorn”, Maced. ἀ-γέρδα, Gk. ἀ- χράς “wild Birnbaum” (ἀ < *sm̥-), Alb. dardhë “Birne, Birnbaum” (*ĝhor-d-) and the antike VN Δάρδανοι; only under assumption a Gutturalwechsels (above S. 18, Anm. 1) läßt sich Lith. gìrsa “Trespe” here stellen (see under ghers-2).

    References: WP. I 611, WH. I 414, 657, Specht Indog. Decl.

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