| 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: | ed- |
| DEFINITION: | To eat; original meaning “to bite.” 1a. eat, from Old English etan, to eat; b. etch, from Old High German ezzen, to feed on, eat; c. ort, from Middle Dutch eten, to eat; d. (i) fret1, from Old English fretan, to devour; (ii) frass, from Old High German frezzan, to devour. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic compound *fra-etan, to eat up (*fra-, completely; see per1). a–d all from Germanic *etan. 2. edacious, edible, escarole, esculent, esurient; comedo, comestible, obese, from Latin edere, to eat. 3. prandial, from Latin compound prandium, lunch, probably from *pr m-(e)d-yo-, “first meal,” *prm-, first; see per1). 4. Suffixed form *ed-un--. anodyne, pleurodynia, from Greek odun , pain (< “gnawing care”). 5. Samoyed, from Russian -ed, eater. (Pokorny ed- 287.) See also derivative dent-. |
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