| 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: | or- |
| DEFINITION: | Large bird. Oldest form * 3er-, colored to *3or-. 1. Suffixed form *or-n-. erne, from Old English earn, eagle, from Germanic *arnuz, eagle. 2. Suffixed form *or-n- th-. ornitho-; aepyornis, ichthyornis, notornis, from Greek orns (stem ornth-), bird. (Pokorny 1. er- 325.) |
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