gʷeru-

    gʷeru-

    English meaning: pole, pike

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘stange, Spieß”

    Material: Av. grava- ‘stick, Rohrstab” (to ablaut compare Lat. genu: Goth. kniu); Lat. uerū, -ūs n. ‘spit, pike”; Umbr. berva “uerua”, berus “ueribus”; O.Ir. bi(u)r n., later f., ‘spear, javelin, spit, pike”, Welsh Corn. Bret. ber f., m. ds.; Goth. qaíru n. “picket, pole, sting, prick”; perhaps as “twig, branch” to Gk. βρύω ‘sprosse, to be full of, to abound with, to be bursting with, to be bristling “, βρύον n. “Moos, Kätzchen”, ἔμβρυον n. “das Neugeborene” and (?) Gmc. *krūda- (IE *gʷrū-to-) in O.H.G. M.H.G. krūt, asächs. krūd “herb”. About Lat. bruscum “ sponge am Ahornbaum” s. WH. I 117.

    References: WP. I 689.