kers-

    kers-

    English meaning: a kind of colour (black)

    Deutsche Übersetzung: in Worten for Farben, especially dunkle, schmutzige

    Note: and probably also bloßes ker-; compare also kel-4 and ker-6.

    Material: O.Ind. kr̥ṣṇá- “black” = O.Pruss. kirsnan ds., FlN Kirsnappe = O.Bulg. črъnъ, Russ. čë renъ, Ser.-Cr. cr̂n etc. “black” (*čьrxnъ, *čьrsnъ); without -no-forms Lith. kéršas “black and white mottled, speckled, *tabby”, kéršė “bunte cow”, kéršis ‘schwarzbunter ox”, keršulis “Ringeltaube”; karšì s f. “Brassen, lead (fish)”, kiršlỹ s m. “ash”; the intonation from kéršas paßt but not zum O.Ind.;

    Note: O.C.S.: črьnъ “black” : Lithuanian: kir̃snas “black (of a horse)” : O.Pruss.: kirsnan “black” : Krishna “ Vedic black god “ Swe. Nor. harr “Äsche” (*harzu-); O.E. heard-hara, heardra- m., Ger. Du. harder, herder ‘sea-ash”.

    References: WP. I 428 f., Trautmann 118, 134 f.