kseud- (*ĝheud-)

    kseud- (*ĝheud-)

    English meaning: to grind in little pieces

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “klein stampfen”

    Material: O.Ind. kṣṓdati ‘stampft, zermalmt”, kṣōda- m. “ shove, Stampfen, Zermalmen; meal, flour, Pulver, Puder”, kṣudrá- ‘small; low, gemein”, compounds kṣṓdīyas-; kṣudrá- n. “mote, speck”; common O.Ind. ĝh- > kṣ- : Slavic ĝh- > ch- phonetic mutation O.Bulg. chudъ ‘small; small, evil, bad”, compounds chuždьjь (: O.Ind. kṣṓdīyas-). Machek (Slavia 16, 174) nimmt as originally meaning “ skinny “ an (Cz. chudū “ poor, bad, lean “), das er somit to O.Ind. kṣudhyati “hungert”, kṣōdh-uka- “ hungry” stellen möchte. O.C.S.: xudъ ‘small, insignificant, scanty” [adj o]; xuždii “worse”; Russian: xudój “thin, lean, bad, full of holes” [adj o]; xúže “worse” Maybe Alb. (*kṣōda-) hollë “ poor, bad, lean “ common Slav.- Alb. ch/h reading; common Alb. -d- > -l- phonetic mutatIon. connection from O.Ind. kṣudrá- with Av. xšudra- “fluid” (see kseud-2) versucht Batakrishna Ghosh (Les formations nominales en p, S. 21) to begrũnden.

    References: WP. I 502.