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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots
 
ENTRY:ghrendh-
DEFINITION:To grind. 1. grind, from Old English grindan, to grind, from Germanic *grindan. 2. grist, from Old English grst, the action of grinding, from Germanic *grinst-, a grinding. 3. fraise, frenulum, frenum; refrain1, from Latin frendere, to grind. 4. Sometimes but improbably regarded as from this root (in variant form *ghrend-) is Greek khondros, granule, groats, hence cartilage: chondro-; hypochondria, mitochondrion. (Pokorny ghren- 459.)
 
 
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