| 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: | wes-pero- |
| DEFINITION: | Evening, night.
I. Reduced form *wes-. 1. Suffixed form *wes-to-. a. west, from Old English west, west; b. western, from Old English westerne, western; c. westerly, from Old English westra, more westerly. a–c all from Germanic *west-. 2. Possibly Germanic *wis-, west, in Late Latin Visigoth , “West Goths” (Goth, the Goths): Visigoth.
II. Basic form *wespero-. 1. pipistrelle, vesper, vespertilionid, from Latin vesper, evening. 2. Hesperian, Hesperides, Hesperus, from Greek hesperos, evening. (Pokorny  esperos 1173.) |
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