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: | ker- |
DEFINITION: | To mix, confuse, cook. Oldest form *er2-, becoming *ker- in centum languages. 1. Variant form *kr- (< *kra-). a. uproar, from Middle Low German rr, motion, from Germanic *hrr-; b. rare2, from Old English hrr, lightly boiled, half-cooked, possibly from Germanic *hrr- (see a). 2. Zero-grade form *k-. a. Suffixed form *k-ti-. idiosyncrasy; dyscrasia, from Greek krsis, a mixing; b. suffixed form *k-ter-. crater, krater, from Greek krtr, mixing vessel. (Pokorny er- 582.) |
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