| 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: | per-3 |
| DEFINITION: | To try, risk (< “to lead over,” “press forward”). A verbal root belonging to the group of per1. 1. Lengthened grade *p r-. fear, from Old English f r, danger, sudden calamity, from Germanic *fraz, danger. 2. Suffixed form *per -tlo-. parlous, peril, from Latin perclum, perculum, trial, danger. 3. Suffixed form *per-yo-. experience, experiment, expert, from Latin experr, to try, learn by trying (ex-, from; see eghs). 4. Suffixed form *per-ya. pirate; empiric, from Greek peira, trial, attempt. (Pokorny 2. E. per 818.) |
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