koro-s, kori̯o-s

    koro-s, kori̯o-s

    English meaning: war, warrior

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Krieg, Kriegsheer”

    Material: 1. without formant -i̯o-, -i̯a-: Lith. kãras “war, fight” and lengthened grade O.Pers. küra- m. “Kriegsvolk, Heer; people”, Pers. kür-zür ‘schlachtfeld”. 2. Gk. κοίρανος (from *Κοίρονος) “ military leader, king, master, mister” (derivative from *κοῖρος from *κόρι̯ος with formants -no-; also O.Ice. herjann “Heervater” as epithet Odins from harja- “Heer” from; κοιρανέω “befehlige; herrsche”, κοιρανία “Herrschaft”, compare of unerweiterten *κοῖρο- EN as Κοιρόμαχος (Boisacq s. v.); M.Ir. cuire m. “troop, multitude, crowd, bulk, mass”, Gaul. Tri-, Petru-corii Völkernamen (“die drei-, vierstämmigen”); Goth. harjis, O.Ice. herr, O.E. here “Heer”, O.H.G. O.S. heri “Heer, bulk, mass”, PN altGmc. Hari-gasti (dat.), perhaps Göttername (Neckel KZ. 60, 284); Lith. kãrias “Heer”, kãrė “war, fight”, karỹs “warrior”, Ltv. kar”š “war, fight, Heer”, O.Pruss. kargis (consigns kragis) “Heer”, caryawoytis acc. sg. “Heerschau”; compare also above kar-1 S. 530, where die Bal.-Slav. examples also here belong cO.N.

    References: WP. I 353, 462, Trautmann 118.