Word | *kers- |
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Meaning | black |
See also |
Linear B: ke-ra-no
‘personal name, black’ Tocharian B: erkent ‘black’ Thracian: kersas ‘black’ Thracian: krisos ‘river name’ |
Synonyms | *swordó-, *kʷr̥snós |
Comments |
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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”; karšìs f. “Brassen, lead (fish)”, kiršlỹ s m. “ash”; the intonation from kéršas paßt but not zum O.Ind. |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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*temó- ‘dark’, *dh(o)ngu- ‘dark’, *(hₐ)mauros ‘dark’, *(hₐ)merhₓgʷ- ‘dark’, *tómhₓes- ‘dark’ |