Lemizh / English dictionary
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stràz.
to make Crimean
stràrz. Crimea
Etymology
gender change of
< NLem star‑a ‘bull’
< LMLem stàr‑yr
< MLem stayr‑yr
< OLem stayr‑
< PLem *stawr‑
< PIE *stáu̯r‑os
This is a (folk etymological) calque from Gk Ταυρική, which is actually derived from the name of the Tauroi, who lived there in the first millennium BCE. It is a shortened form of NLem jsoj‑star‑a, lit. ‘island of the bull(s)’.
doublet of strà.
Cognates
Ger Stier ‘bull’, Lat taurus ‘bull’