The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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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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