See erkan on Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "Tuesday",
"word": "Erchtag"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*erknaz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/erknaz"
],
[
"𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃",
"𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃#Gothic"
],
[
"eorcnanstan",
"eorcnanstan#Old_English"
],
[
"eorcnan",
"eorcnan#Old_English"
],
[
"erce",
"erce#Old_English"
],
[
"*h₂erǵ-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂erǵ-"
],
[
"ἀργός",
"ἀργός#Ancient_Greek"
],
[
"argentum",
"argentum#Latin"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*erknaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *erknaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "eorcnanstan",
"t": "precious stone, gem"
},
"expansion": "Old English eorcnanstan (“precious stone, gem”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂erǵ-",
"t": "glittering, white"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“glittering, white”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀργός"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀργός (argós)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "argentum"
},
"expansion": "Latin argentum",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Apparently from Proto-Germanic *erknaz, thus cognate with 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃 (airkns, “holy, pure (of faith)”) and Old English eorcnanstan (“precious stone, gem”) (see eorcnan, erce). An archaic Germanic word from the sacral sphere, its original meaning is difficult to reconstruct as it belonged to the pagan religious vocabulary obscured after Christianization.\nPokorny (1959) tentatively groups the word with Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“glittering, white”) (compare Ancient Greek ἀργός (argós), Latin argentum).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ërkan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "ërchan",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "ërchno",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "ërchen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "ërcn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "adjective",
"head": "ërkan",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "ërkan",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": "ërkan"
},
"expansion": "ërkan",
"name": "goh-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Old High German",
"lang_code": "goh",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old High German entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"english": "full brother, germanus",
"translation": "full brother, germanus",
"word": "ërchanpruoder"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "dër ërchano sangheri (=egregius psaltes, Isaiah 4:2)"
},
{
"text": "ërcna euua (=certa lege Isaiah 2:1)"
},
{
"text": "allëro specierum ërchenosta (=speciem specialissimam)"
},
{
"text": "Also ih tes mennisken boteh einen toten mennisken heizo, nals nicht ërchenen mennisken (Notker trans. Boethius 5http://archive.org/stream/denkmahledesmitt03hattuoft#page/170/mode/2up = Nam uti cadauer hominem mortuum dixeris, simpliciter uero hominem appellare non possis \"For though you might call a cadaver 'a dead man', you cannot just simply call it 'a man' [viz. it is not genuinely a man].\")"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sublime, chief, special, outstanding, irrefutable, genuine, true"
],
"id": "en-erkan-goh-adj-L0satt6G",
"links": [
[
"sublime",
"sublime"
],
[
"chief",
"chief"
],
[
"special",
"special"
],
[
"outstanding",
"outstanding"
],
[
"irrefutable",
"irrefutable"
],
[
"genuine",
"genuine"
],
[
"true",
"true"
]
]
}
],
"word": "erkan"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"english": "full brother, germanus",
"translation": "full brother, germanus",
"word": "ërchanpruoder"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "Tuesday",
"word": "Erchtag"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"*erknaz",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/erknaz"
],
[
"𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃",
"𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃#Gothic"
],
[
"eorcnanstan",
"eorcnanstan#Old_English"
],
[
"eorcnan",
"eorcnan#Old_English"
],
[
"erce",
"erce#Old_English"
],
[
"*h₂erǵ-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₂erǵ-"
],
[
"ἀργός",
"ἀργός#Ancient_Greek"
],
[
"argentum",
"argentum#Latin"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*erknaz"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *erknaz",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "eorcnanstan",
"t": "precious stone, gem"
},
"expansion": "Old English eorcnanstan (“precious stone, gem”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*h₂erǵ-",
"t": "glittering, white"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“glittering, white”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "ἀργός"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek ἀργός (argós)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "argentum"
},
"expansion": "Latin argentum",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Apparently from Proto-Germanic *erknaz, thus cognate with 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃 (airkns, “holy, pure (of faith)”) and Old English eorcnanstan (“precious stone, gem”) (see eorcnan, erce). An archaic Germanic word from the sacral sphere, its original meaning is difficult to reconstruct as it belonged to the pagan religious vocabulary obscured after Christianization.\nPokorny (1959) tentatively groups the word with Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“glittering, white”) (compare Ancient Greek ἀργός (argós), Latin argentum).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ërkan",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "ërchan",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "ërchno",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "ërchen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "ërcn",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "goh",
"2": "adjective",
"head": "ërkan",
"sort": ""
},
"expansion": "ërkan",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"head": "ërkan"
},
"expansion": "ërkan",
"name": "goh-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Old High German",
"lang_code": "goh",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old High German adjectives",
"Old High German entries with incorrect language header",
"Old High German lemmas",
"Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old High German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "dër ërchano sangheri (=egregius psaltes, Isaiah 4:2)"
},
{
"text": "ërcna euua (=certa lege Isaiah 2:1)"
},
{
"text": "allëro specierum ërchenosta (=speciem specialissimam)"
},
{
"text": "Also ih tes mennisken boteh einen toten mennisken heizo, nals nicht ërchenen mennisken (Notker trans. Boethius 5http://archive.org/stream/denkmahledesmitt03hattuoft#page/170/mode/2up = Nam uti cadauer hominem mortuum dixeris, simpliciter uero hominem appellare non possis \"For though you might call a cadaver 'a dead man', you cannot just simply call it 'a man' [viz. it is not genuinely a man].\")"
}
],
"glosses": [
"sublime, chief, special, outstanding, irrefutable, genuine, true"
],
"links": [
[
"sublime",
"sublime"
],
[
"chief",
"chief"
],
[
"special",
"special"
],
[
"outstanding",
"outstanding"
],
[
"irrefutable",
"irrefutable"
],
[
"genuine",
"genuine"
],
[
"true",
"true"
]
]
}
],
"word": "erkan"
}
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