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From Proto-Indo-European*derbʰ-(“tuft, grass”).
Don Ringe argues that the lack of a-mutation in Old High German shows that zurba must have originally been a consonant stem.[1] In addition, Old Englishturf clearly shows a consonant-stem declension.
In many of the descendants, the noun was thematized early on enough to cause a-mutation in the descendant forms.
→ Proto-Finnic: *turbëh, *turbas (see there for further descendants)
References
^ Ringe, Don with Ann Taylor (2014) The Development of Old English: a Linguistic History of English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 28
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
