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Record number: 1591

Root / lemma: regw|os-

English meaning: darkness

German meaning: `Dunkelheit'

Grammatical information: n.

Derivatives: *ergw|- : orgw|- `dunkel'?

Material: Ai. ra/jani:- `Nacht'; gr. `Dunkel der Unterwelt' (-Vorschlag); arm. erek und erekoy `Abend'; auch Adverb erek `gestern'; got. riqis, -izis n. `Dunkel', nisl. rkkr, -rs `Dunkel, Da"mmerung'; hierher vielleicht gr. `dunkel' (*orgw|sno-) und toch. A orka"m (*orgw|mo-) `Finsternis'; anders oben S. 334.

References: WP. II 367, Benveniste Hirt-Festschrift 2, 236, Burrow BSOAS 12, 645 f.

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