- ker-4
- ker-4English meaning: cherryDeutsche Übersetzung: in Worten for “Kornelkirsche, Kirsche”Material: Gk. κράνος m. f. = Lat. cornus (*kr̥nos) “Kornelkirschbaum”, κράνον = Lat. cornum “Kornelkirsche”, Lith. *kirnas as base from Kirnis “deus cerasorum”; in addition probably Gk. κέρασος “Kirschbaum” (out of it Lat. cerasus), perhaps thrakisch-Phryg. word. Contrariness of phonetically Ü bereinstimmung remain far off the meaning because of : Lith. kìrna f. ‘strauchband from Weiden”, kirnis ‘swamp, marsh”, O.Pruss. kirno f. ‘shrub, bush”, ablaut. Lith. kẽras “hoher, verwitterter stump; Staude”, kere ́ti “in die Ä ste schießen ”, Ltv. cęrs ‘shrub, bush, knorrige Baumwurzel”, O.Pruss. ker-berse “Wirsenholz” (perhaps ‘strauchbirke”), with formants -ba, Lith. kìrba (out of it Ltv. ḱirba) ‘swamp, marsh, morass”; R.C.S. kъrjь, Russ. korь “root”, Cz. keř ‘shrub, bush”, o-grade O.C.S. (etc.) korenь, gen. - ene (en-stem) “root”; together with Russ. čé ren, čerenó k “Heft, Stiel, handle, grasp a Messers; Pfropfreis” etc. (see Berneker 146 f.); perhaps to (s)ker- “cut, clip”.References: WP. I 411 f., WH. I 221 f., 276 f.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.