[English Etymology] Miscellaneous Non-PIE Proto-Germanic Roots 🇩🇪

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Proto-Germanic *hurr  "imitative of rapid motion"



English hurl
      Old English hurlen "to run against (each other), come into collision, throw forcibly (c. 1300); rush violently (late 14c.)"
       

English hurry
     Proto-Germanic *hurza "to move with haste"


English scurry
    perhaps from hurry-scurry (1732), a reduplication of hurry

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Proto-Germanic *kr-   "bent, hooked"


Eng crook "hook-shaped instrument or weapon" 
    Old Norse krokr "hook, corner" 


Eng encroach
    Old French encrochier "seize, hang on (to), cling (to); hang up, suspend, to catch with a hook" = en-  + croc

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Proto-Germanic *staumaz

Old English steam "vapor, fume, water in a gaseous state," 

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Eng struggle

?Old Norse strugr "ill will;"  ? Dutch struikelen ?German straucheln "to stumble." 


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Proto-Germanic *tag-  "sharp and pointed things"

Eng tack "clasp, hook, fastener"
    Old North French taque "nail, pin, peg" 

Eng tackle "apparatus, gear; entangle, involve (14c.); come to grips with, attack (1800s)"
   Middle Dutch/Middle Low German takel "the rigging of a ship"
                ?(Middle Dutch taken "grasp, seize"+ Proto-Germanic *tag-)

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Proto-Germanic *tanhu-


Eng tough
   Old English toh "strong and firm in texture, tenacious, sticky" 

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Proto-Germanic *taltaz "unsteady"

Eng tilt
   Old English *tyltan "to be unsteady," 
                              tealt "unsteady" 

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Middle Dutch trecken " to pull"


Eng trek
   Dutch trekken "to march, journey, to draw, pull"
      Middle Dutch trecken

Eng trigger "device by means of which a catch or spring is released and a mechanism set in action," 
           tricker (1620s)
               Dutch trekker "trigger"
                              trekken

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