| Word | *ters- |
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| Meaning | dry |
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Homeric Greek: τερσαίνω
‘dry up’ Latin: terra ‘earth’ Lycian: tere ‘territory, district’ |
| Synonyms | *kseros-, *siskus |
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Comments |
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| Skr. tṛ ṣ yati, Av. taršu, Arm. t'aṙ amim, Gk. tersomai/, Alb. ter, Lat. terra;torrēre;torreō, Eng. þurst/thirst, Gm. durri/dürr, Goth. þaursus, ON þurr, Lith. trōkšti, Ir. tírim/tirim, Kashmiri treśiho.t | |
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Other words that might be of interest |
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| *au̯(e)-9, au̯ed-, au̯er- ‘to flow, to wet water’, *gʷheid- ‘drop’, *mori-/mari- ‘body of water, lake’, *warsa- ‘rainfall, precipitation’, *ab- ‘water, river’, *h₂ekʷ- ‘water’, *h₂ep- ‘water’, *h₂eĝʰero- ‘lake’, *laku- ‘pond’, *lat- ‘swamp’, *wed ‘wet’, *yeg- ‘ice’, *wódr̥/wudr̥ ‘water’, *welg / wolg ‘moisture, wet, liquid food’, *s(t)r-ew-/s(t)r-ow-/s(t)r-u-/sreu̯- ‘to flow’, *dehanu- ‘river’, *del- ‘to flow’, *gʷel(s)- ‘to flow, to well up’, *h₁eihₓ(s)- ‘ice’, *h₁res-~h₁ers- ‘liquid, moisture’, *h₁wers- ‘rain’, *h₁wes- ‘moist’, *h₂eb(h)- ‘river’, *h₃eust(y)o- ‘estuary, river mouth’, *hₐeghlu~hₐeĝhlu ‘rain’, *hₐehₓperos(?) ‘river bank, shore of sea’, *hₐekʷehₐ- ‘water’, *hₐel- ‘to well up, to flow’, *hₓihₓlu ‘mud, swamp’, *we/ohₓr ‘water’, *welk-~welg- ‘wet’, *wegʷ- ‘wet’, *yuhₓ-r- ‘water’, *kr̥snehₐ ‘spring, wave’, *leg- ‘drip, trickle’, *lehat- ‘moist, wet’, *lokús ‘water, lake, pond’, *m(e)hₐd- ‘moist, become wet, fat’, *móri ‘sea’, *pen- ‘water’, *rṓs ‘moisture, dew’, *srīges- ‘cold, frost’, *stag- ‘drip, seep’, *suhₓ- ‘rain’, *drewentih₂- ‘river name’, *n̥bʰ(ro/ri)- ‘rain’ | |