erchan
Old High German
adj
Definitions
- sublime, chief, special, egregious, genuine, true (?)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *erknaz derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (white, shine, glittering, shining, argent, brilliant white).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erǵ-
Gloss
white, shine, glittering, shining, argent, brilliant white
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
白
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Argentia English
- Argentina English
- minargent English
- argentarius Latin
- argenteus Latin
- argentifolius Latin
- argentinus Latin
- argentosus Latin
- argentum Latin
- argentātus Latin
- argūmentātor Latin
- deargento Latin
- argento Italian
- argent French
- Argentina Spanish, Castilian
- argento Spanish, Castilian
- λήθαργος Ancient Greek
- πελαργός Ancient Greek
- πύγαργος Ancient Greek
- ἀργία Ancient Greek
- ἀργεϊφόντης Ancient Greek
- ἀργυρόηλος Ancient Greek
- ἀργός Ancient Greek
- ἄργυρος Ancient Greek
- ἄργυρος, ἄργῠρος Ancient Greek
- Ἀργαῖος Ancient Greek
- Ἀργυννίς Ancient Greek
- *h₂erǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂rǵ-i-pt-ió-s Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂érǵus Proto-Indo-European
- h₂r̥ǵ-ró-s Proto-Indo-European
- *erknaz Proto-Germanic
- Argentina Swedish
- eorcnan Old English
- eorcnanstan Old English
- stān Old English
- अर्जुन Sanskrit
- argent Old French
- argentin Old French
- Argentina Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- argint Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Ag Translingual
- արծարծեմ Old Armenian
- արծնեմ Old Armenian
- arjento Ido
- Argentinne Norman
- ارݢينتوم Malay
- argjend Albanian
- 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌺𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- *argantom Proto-Celtic
- *Hr̥ȷ́ás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *Hárȷ́unas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *argentom Proto-Italic
- argien Romansh
- argient Romansh
- arint Friulian
- argent Old Occitan
- argentu Sicilian
- argénto Ligurian
- arziant Dalmatian
- *Hárdah Proto-Iranian
- *arjata- Proto-Iranian
- argentu Corsican
- *egr- Proto-Georgian-Zan
- 𒄯𒆠𒅖 Hittite
- *ārkw(ä)i Proto-Tocharian