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    kret-1

    English meaning: to shake

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schũtteln”

    Note: (whether as “bump, poke” with kret- “hit” identical? or extension from sker- “turn, kreisend schwingen”?)

    Material: Lith. krečiù , krěsti ‘shake, schũttelnd streuen”, Iter. krataũ, -ūti ds., kretù krete ́ti ‘sich hin and her bewegen, shake oneself, shiver”, Ltv. krèst ‘shake”, Iterat. kratît, krętulis “kind of Sieb” (Ltv. kraitât “lurch” Entgleisung from a *krit- from); M.Ir. crothaim ‘shake”, Gaul.-rom. *crottiüre ‘shake”; O.H.G. redan ‘sieben”, Ger. dial. räder, rädel ‘sieb”; O.Ice. hraðr “quick, fast”, O.E. hræÞ, hräed “quick, fast, behend”, Eng. rather “lieber”, O.H.G. hrad, hrat “velox, strenuus”; O.Ice.hrǣ ða “frighten (trans.)”, hrǣ ddr “entsetzt”; also O.E. ü-hreddan “befreien, retten”, O.H.G. retten “move, drive, push; befreien, retten” as “from the Gefahr wegstoßen”?

    References: WP. I 484, Mũhlenbach-Endzelin II 274, 261, 256.