ghers-2
English meaning used in names of weeds
German meaning in Unkrautbezeichnungen?
Grammatical comments
General comments
Derivatives
Material Ahd. gers, giers, girst (Grassmann, Dt. Pflanzennamen 100 ff., Björkmann ZfdWtf. 3, 268) `Giersch, Aegopodium Podagraria';
lit. gar̃šas m., garšvà f. Angelica Archangelica; gar̃švė f. `Giersch', lett. gārsa, gārša, gārši ds.; dazu auch lit. gìrsa f. = dìrsė `Trespe' (Bromus), lett. dzirši `Trespen' (diese nach Endzelin KZ. 44, 58 zu lat. hordeum [s. unter ĝherzd(h)] `Gerste'; vgl. Mühlenbach-Endzelin I 555, 618 f.).
References WP. I 611, Trautmann 79 f.
See also
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