| 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: | kerp- |
| DEFINITION: | To gather, pluck, harvest. Variant *karp-. 1. harvest, from Old English hærfest, harvest, from Germanic *harbistaz. 2. carpet; excerpt, scarce, from Latin carpere, to pluck. 3. –carp, carpel, carpo-, –carpous, from Greek karpos, fruit. (In Pokorny 4. sker- 938.) |
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