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Tōkaidō 37 Akasaka 赤坂
The name of the thirty-sixth station Akasaka means “red slope”.
One of the words for “red” in Old Irish is derg < PC *dergo-, prps. < PIE *dʰergo-. It has no known cognate in another Celtic language, but it may be related to OE deorc “dark”,...
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The name of the thirty-sixth station Akasaka means “red slope”.
One of the words for “red” in Old Irish is derg < PC *dergo-, prps. < PIE *dʰergo-. It has no known cognate in another Celtic language, but it may be related to OE deorc “dark”,...
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...MHG terken “to soil”, Lith. dérgti “to soil”, and, less secure, Lith. dargà “bad weather”, ORuss. padoroga “bad weather”, Tocharian A tärkär “cloud”. If all of these words belong together, the common semantic denominator would be the impression of some gloomy colour.
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The word is occasionally found as an element in Irish placenames: https://www.logainm.ie/ga/gls/64-dearg .
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