δέρω

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hellenic *dérō, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (to tear, tear apart).[1]

Cognate with English tear, Scots tere, teir, tair (to rend, lacerate, wound, rip, tear out), Lithuanian dìrti (to flay), Dutch teren (to eliminate, efface, live, survive by consumption), German zehren (to consume, misuse), German zerren (to tug, rip, tear), Danish tære (to consume), Swedish tära (to fret, consume, deplete, use up), Icelandic tæra (to clear, corrode).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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δέρω (dérō)

  1. to skin, flay

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: δέρνω (dérno)

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δέρω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 318-9

Further reading

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