| 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: | pezd- |
| DEFINITION: | To fart. 1. Suffixed form *pezd-i-. feist, from Old English f sting, a breaking wind, and Middle English fisten, to fart, from Germanic *fistiz, a fart. 2. petard, from Latin p dere, to fart. 3. Perhaps Latin pdis, louse (? < “foul-smelling insect”): pedicular. (Pokorny pezd- 829, 2. peis- 796.) Compare perd-. |
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