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wràxf.
self-transporting: to flow somewhere-dat etc.
Usage notes
This is a movement verb for fluids and things metaphorically like fluids such as flags, coats or long hair. For actions ‘flowing’ smoothly, hràw. is more appropriate.
Etymology
< NLem wirxf‑a
< LMLem wìrxaf‑a ‘flow swiftly’
< MLem wiirxaf‑a
< OLem wīr‑xaf‑ ‘swift stream or river’, compound of
OLem wīr‑ ‘young, strong’
< PLem *wīr‑ ‘young, strong (man)’, r-stem adjective of
< PIE *u̯ih₁‑
—and—
OLem xaf‑ ‘water, stream’
< PLem *xaf‑ ‘water’ [animate], ‘stream’
< PIE *h₂ép‑s
Cognates
Lat vir ‘man’; Ved ā́p ‘water’