Re: [tied] Re: HRIM

From: Petusek
Message: 36812
Date: 2005-03-20


I think it is Old Norse hri:m "rime, rimefrost" < PG * hri:m- < IE *krei- according to Pokorny:
 

Root / lemma krei Query method Match substring

Total of 2 records

Root / lemma: krei-1

English meaning: to touch, brush

German meaning: `über etwas drüberhinstreifen, berühren'

Material: Aisl. hrīna `wirken', ags. asächs. ahd. hrīnan `berühren, streifen' (no-Präs.); nach Wissmann Nom.postverb. 152 ff. hierher ags. hrenian `einen Geruch ausströmen', afries. stark. V. hrena `einen Geruch empfinden'; ags. aisl. hrīm, mhd. rīm `Reif';

    lit. krėnà f. `Rahm, Sahne' (`was man abstreift, abschöpft'), lett. kreju, krèju, krìet `die Sahne von der Milch abschöpfen', krèims m. `Rahm' (aus deverbalem krèjums `was man abstreifen kann');

    daneben mit germ. p: asächs. hrīpo, ahd. hrīfo `Reif'.

References: WP. I 478, Trautmann 141.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel J. Milton
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: HRIM


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@......> wrote:
> What's the etymology of Norse Hrim "ice, frost" ?
>
> Joao SL
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  Hrim in Old English also (rime in Mod. Eng.).   No etymology given
in the references I have handy.
Dan Milton