žuriti

žuriti Grammatical information: v. Proto-Slavic meaning: `rage'

Russian:

žurít' (coll.) `reprove, scold' [verb], žurjú [1sg], žurít [3sg];

žurít'sja (dial.) `grieve, quarrel' [verb], žurjús' [1sg], žurítsja [3sg]

Czech:

zuřiti `rage, be furious' [verb] \{1\}

Slovak:

zúrit' `rage, be furious' [verb] \{1\}

Polish:

żurzyć się (obs.) `be angry, rage' [verb]

Lower Sorbian:

zuriś `make sour, embitter' [verb]

Serbo-Croatian:

zúriti se `hurry, (dial.) complain' [verb], žȗrīm se [1sg]

Slovene:

žúriti se `hurry' [verb], žúrim se [1sg]

Indo-European reconstruction: gʰeuro-

Comments: According to Young (2002), the West Slavic forms continue a denominative verb based on an unattested adjective corresponding to Lith. žiaurùs `cruel, savage', which he assumes to have the same root as Lith. žvėrìs `wild animal' (*ǵʰeuh₁r-?). Like Vasmer and others, he connects the East and South Slavic forms with Skt. ghorá- `terrible, terrifying' [adj] and Go. gaurs `sad' [adj]. Since the meaning of the West Slavic forms may have been influenced by German sauer `sour, angry' (perhaps through association with West Slavic *žurъ `sour mass used for soup or bread', which is regarded as a borrowing), I wonder if it is necessary to assume a different origin for the West Slavic forms on the one hand and the East and South Slavic forms on the other.

Other cognates:

Skt. ghorá- (RV+) `terrible, terrifying' [adj];

Go. gaurs `sad' [adj]

Notes:

\{1\} With dissimilation of *žuř- to zuř- in Czech (Machek 1971: s.v.). The Slovak form may be a borrowing from Czech.