Change viewing parameters
Select another database
Pokorny's dictionary :
Search within this database
Number: 1102
Root: kʷsep- (?)
English meaning: dark
German meaning: und einigermaßen anklingende Worte für `Dunkel'
Material: Ai. kṣáp, kṣapā́ `Nacht', av. xšap- `Dunkelheit'; gr. ψέφας, ψέφος n. `Dunkel', ψεφαρός, ψεφηνός `dunkel'; κνέφας `Dunkel'; δνόφος `Finsternis', später γνόφος ds., hom. δνοφερός `dunkel', ἰοδνεφής `dunkelviolett'; ζόφος `Dunkel', ζοφερός `dunkel'. Der wechselnde gr. Anlaut beruht auf Tabu-Vorstellungen.
References: WP. I 524 f., WH. I 289, Specht Idg. Dekl. 11.
Pages: 649
pokorny-root,pokorny-meaning,pokorny-ger_mean,pokorny-material,pokorny-ref,pokorny-pages,pokorny-piet,
Search within this database
Indo-European etymology :
Search within this database
Proto-IE: *kʷsep-
Meaning: darkness, dark
Hittite: ispant- c. 'Nacht' (Tischler 409ff)
Old Indian: kṣáp- (gen. kṣapáḥ), kṣapā́ f. `night'
Avestan: xšap- 'Dunkelheit'
Old Greek: pséphas, pséphos n. `Dunkel, Finsternis', psepharó- `dunkel, finster, wolkig'
Russ. meaning: темнота, темный
piet-meaning,piet-hitt,piet-ind,piet-avest,piet-greek,piet-rusmean,piet-refer,
Search within this database
Select another database
Change viewing parameters
| Total pages generated | Pages generated by this script | | 790193 | 2494923 |
| Help
|
| StarLing database server | Powered by | CGI scripts | | Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin |  | Copyright 1998-2003 by G. Bronnikov
Copyright 2005-2014 by Phil Krylov |
|
