gerwe
Old Prussian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōws (“crane”), from *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).
Noun
[edit]gerwe
- crane (bird)
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
- Kranch Gerwe
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
Sudovian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂ōws. Compare Lithuanian gérvė, Latvian dzẽrve, Old Prussian gerwe, all meaning "crane".[1][2]
It seems "stork" and "crane" are switched, possibly due to the similarities between the birds, or a copying error. Compare ſterkaſ, garſ.
Noun
[edit]gerwe
- (zoology) stork
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 207, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References
[edit]- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, , page 73: “gerwe ‘gandras, l. bośiań’ 207.”
- ^ “gérvė” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. gerwe sf. ‘Storch’”.
Categories:
- Old Prussian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Prussian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gerh₂-
- Old Prussian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Prussian lemmas
- Old Prussian nouns
- prg:Birds
- Sudovian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Sudovian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Sudovian lemmas
- Sudovian nouns
- xsv:Zoology
- Sudovian terms with quotations
- xsv:Birds