Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h₁er-

*h₁er-

1. earth

• *h₂erh₃-
• *h₁erh₂-

• *h₁ér-teh₂
  • Proto-Germanic: *erþō (“earth, ground, soil”) (see there for further descendants)
• Unsorted formations:
  • Proto-Albanian: *ā̆ur(V)n
    • Albanian: varr
  • >? Proto-Balto-Slavic:
    • Lithuanian: érdvė
  • Celtic:
    • Welsh: erw (“field”) (or < *h₂erh₃- (“to plow”))
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: *ἔρα (*éra) (in ἔραζε (éraze, “on the ground”) and compounds)
  • Proto-Tocharian:
    • Tocharian B: āre^[1]

• Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 174
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449
• Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 122