gʷer-3, gʷor-

    gʷer-3, gʷor-

    English meaning: mountain

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Berg”

    Grammatical information: originally inflection gʷores, gen. gʷeros

    Material: O.Ind. girí-ḥ m. “mountain”, Av. gairi- ds.; Alb. gur “rocks, stone” (gʷeri-); Also Alb. (*gʷeres) gërxh “rock” maybe Hitt. ḫé-kur, ḫé-gur “mountain” and Alb. *ḫé-kur, hekur “iron ore, iron” came from the same root, hence Root gʷer-3, gʷor- : (mountain) derived from Root agro- (egro-?) : [top, first, beginning (point, peak, topmost, uppermost)]. Gk. δειρός (Hes.) “hill”, ὑψίδειρος “with hohen Klippen”, δειράς, Cret. δηράς f. “hill, Anhöhe” (*gʷeri̯ o-?); in addition βορέᾱς “Nordwind” (to *βόρειος “montanus”, Schwyzer Gk. I 461 and Anm. 2); βαρύες δένδρα Hes.?; the Thrac. VN ΏΤπερ-βορέοι “die jenseits of Berges Wohnenden” contains probably das Gk. Lw. *βορις; lit nugarà “back, ridge “; with the meaning development “Berg - (Berg)wald - tree”: Lith. gìrė, girià “wood, forest”, Ltv. dziŕē ds., and O.Pruss. garian n. (acc. garrin) “tree”; further Ltv. garš “wood, forest”, gãršas ‘swamp, marsh”; O.C.S. gora “mountain”, Ser.-Cr. gòra “mountain, wood, forest”, etc.

    References: WP. I 682, Trautmann 78, Pedersen La cinqunder dé cl. Lat. 37, 66.