Where does “dere” come from?
I can't write this etymology in good conscience. The chain you've provided has critical problems:
1. **The chain doesn't connect to "dere"** — it traces "there" backward to PIE "só" (a demonstrative pronoun meaning "that/this"), which doesn't semantically lead to "dere"
2. **Circular loops** — the chain repeats "terp-" and "trep-" in a way that suggests corruption in the source data
3. **No known meaning for "dere"** — you've noted it as unknown, which means I cannot "weave in the oldest meaning to explain sense development" as the rules require
4. **Incoherent PIE chain** — the progression dʰegʷʰ- → terp- → trep- → terp- → só doesn't follow standard phonological or morphological logic
The rules state "
dere (English): Hurt; harm; injury; To hurt; harm; injure; wound;...
Definitions
- Hurt; harm; injury; To hurt; harm; injure; wound;...
Ancestry of “dere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | there | In a place or location at some distance from the... |
| 2 | Old English | þær | there |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | þār | there |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | þar | there, in that place |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | tar- | there |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | to- | it; that; the, that |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |