- ĝhesor-1, ĝhesr-
- ĝhesor-1, ĝhesr-English meaning: handDeutsche Übersetzung: “Hand”?Note: Both Root ĝhesor-1, ĝhesr- : “hand” and Root ĝhesto-2 : “hand, arm” derived from an extended archaic root ĝhes + reduced form of the common PIE suffix variants -tar, -ter, -tra, -tre.Material: Arm. jeṙn (*ĝhes-r-m̥), pl. jeṙ-k “hand” (Meillet Esquisse 83); Gk. χείρ f. “hand”, gen. χειρός, Dor. χηρός, dat. pl. χερσί (thereafter die form χερ-); Toch. A tsar, В ṣar “hand” (after Pedersen Tochar. 236 from *kesar =) Hitt. ki-es-sar (kessar) n. and ki-es-si-ra-as (kesseras) m., f., dat. sg. ki-is-sa-ri (kesri = Gk. χειρί?); about Lat. īr, hīr “hohle hand” (from Osc.-Umbr. *hēr < *ghēsrü?) s. WH. I 649.Note: Clearly Root der-1 (: dōr-, der-) or dōr- : dǝr- : “hand span” derived through Root ĝhesor-1, ĝhesr- : “hand”; Root ĝhesto-2 : “hand, arm” through Illyr. intermediary. The phonetic shift kh > t, ĝh > d is a unique Alb. phonetic mutatIon. Hence Alb. dora “hand” derived from *ghēhrü
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.