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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots
 
ENTRY:dher-
DEFINITION:Under. 1a. under, under-, from Old English under, under; b. U-boat, from Old High German untar, under. Both a and b from Germanic *under-. 2. inferior, from Latin nferus, lower. 3. infernal, inferno, from Latin nfernus, lower. 4. infra-, from Latin nfr, below. (Pokorny dhos 771.)
 
 
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