Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/ter-

*ter-

1. tender, weak
2. young creature

• Unsorted formations:
  • Albanian: trim
  • Armenian:
    • Old Armenian: թոռն (tʿoṙn)
    • Middle Armenian: թարմ (tʿarm)
  • Balto-Slavic: *tarnas
    • Lithuanian: tar̃nas (“servant”)
  • Hellenic:
    • Ancient Greek: τέρυ (téru, “weak, small”), τέρην (térēn, “smooth, gentle”), τεράμων (terámōn, “becoming soft by boiling”)
  • Indo-Iranian: *tárunas
    • Indo-Aryan: *tárunas
      • Sanskrit: तरुण (táruṇa, “young”), तर्ण (tárṇa, “calf”), तर्णक (tárṇaka, “any young animal”)
        • Romani: tarno (“young”)
    • Iranian: *tárunah
      • Avestan: 𐬙𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬥𐬀‎ (tauruna, “the young of humans and animals”)
      • Middle Persian: [script needed] (tarōk, “young”), [script needed] (tōrūk, “young dog”)
      • Ossetian:
        • Digor: тӕрин (tærin), тӕрна (tærna)
        • Iron: тыры́н (tyrýn), тыр (tyr)
      • Persian: تر‎ (tar, “wet”), توله‎ (tôla, “whelp”), ترانه‎ (tarâna, “a handsome youth”)
      • Sogdian: [script needed] (trn /tarun/, “tame, gentle”)
  • Italic:
    • Latin: (possibly) tardus
    • Latin: (possibly) tener
    • Latin: (possibly) termes
    • Sabine: terenum (“soft”)

• Pokorny, Julius (1959), “²ter-, teru-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1070 of 1070, 1071
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “թարմ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page թոռն of 161, 198
• Abajev, V. I. (1979), “²tæryn, tyryn | tærna”, in Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovarʹ osetinskovo jazyka [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Ossetian Language] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences, page 280