areq-

    areq-

    English meaning: to guard, lock

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘schũtzen, verschließen”

    Material: In detail Osthoff IF. 8, 54 ff. m. Lith. Arm. argel “ hump, block, check, fence, hurdle, barrier, drawback, obstacle, hindrance, balk, impediment “, denomin. argelum “ resist, hold from, hold back “; maybe with ogradation orm “ wall, mural “ (*ork-mo-?); Gk. ἀρκέω “ resist, reproach, protects, helps; express disappointment, be sufficient, be enough “ (ἀρκέσω, ἤρκεσα) probably from *ἀρκέι̯ω; ἄρκος n. “ protection, cover, shelter “ (Alkman); ἄρκιoς “ sufficing, enough “, αὐτ-άρκης “ oneself enough “, ποδ-άρκης “ with sufficing feet, fast “ (see also Bechtel Lexil. 279 f.); Maybe Alb. (*ἄρκος) argësh “crude craft supported by skin bladders, crude bridge of crossbars, harrow”, zero grade in Alb. (*argo-) rrogë “alpine meadow (to be guarded)”. Lat. arceō, -ēre “ to shut in; to keep at a distance, hinder, prevent, keep away “, arca “ a chest, box; esp. a money-box or coffin; also a cell “ (actually “ fastener, shutter “, compare arcünus “ shut, closed; hence silent, secret, confidential “; from Lat. derives Goth. etc arka “ boxes, money boxes, ark “; maybe Alb. arkë “ box, money boxes, ark “. O.H.G. arahha, archa “ ark “ and from Gmc. again O.C.S. raka “ burial cave”, O.Pruss. arkan acc. sg. “ark”), arx “ fortified hill, castle, fort “, arcera “ canopied chariot “ (suffix after cumera, compare WH. I 63) Osc. trííbarakavúm “ to build, erect, establish; to create, frame “ (constitutes beforehand *trēbark- “ to enclose a house, to put up a fence around a house “); O.H.G. rigil, M.H.G. rigel “ latch, bolt “, M.Eng. rail (O.E. *reogol), Gũntert Kalypso 136; Lith. rãktas “key”, rakìnti “ to lock, shut “; Hitt. ḫar(k)- “ hold, clamp, to hang (kill s.o. by hanging them) “, Götze and Pedersen Muršili 50.

    Note: Maybe Alb. (*ḫark-) varg “row, chain, ring”; common prothetic Alb. v- before bare initial vowels. Through the meaning little is recommended to citation of Welsh archen “ clothes, shoe “, Bret. arc”henna “ wear shoes “ (M.Ir. acrann “ shoe, clothes “ probably reconverted from arc-, Stokes KZ. 41, 381). About that of W. Foy KZ. 35, 62 as “ castle hill “ interpreted O.Pers. mountain names arkadri- see Justi IA. 17, 106 (supposedly (H)ara-kadriš “ mountain ravine, mountain gorge “), but in addition again Bartholomae Z. altIran. Wb. 105 Anm. 1, 116. Maybe zero grade in Alb. kodra, kodrinë (dim.) “hill” from a truncated O.Pers. (H)ara-kadriš “ mountain ravine”. Against apposition (Bruckner KZ. 45, 108 Anm.) recommends meaning from Slav. račiti “ want, grant “. As form mit o-gradation (or at most with or = r̥ ) covers Lat. Orcus “ Orcus, the infernal regions. Transf. the god of the lower world; death, realm of the dead “ (uncertain “ lock, seal, shut, trap, close, lock up, shut up, close up “?).

    References: WP. I 80 f., WH. 62 f., 848.

    See also: Similarly aleq- “ refuse, protect “ and areg- (see d.).