< Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European

Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/kars-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Root

*kars-[1][2]

  1. to scratch, rub
  2. to comb

Descendants
  • Middle Low German: harsch (“rough, harsh”)
  • Old Church Slavonic: краста (krasta, “abcess, ulcer”)
  • Sanskrit: कष् (kaṣ, “to rub, scratch, scrape”)[3]

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 532
  2. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 231
  3. Monier Williams (1899), “kaṣ-”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0265.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.