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Word: kers-
Language: Proto-Indo-European
Meaning: black
See also:krisos (Thracian), kersas (Thracian)
Comments: 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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