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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	reup-
DEFINITION:	Also reub-. To snatch. Derivatives include bereave, rob, usurp, and bankrupt. I. Basic form reub-. rip¹, from Flemish rippen,* to rip, from Germanic rupjan. II.* O-grade form roup-. 1a.* reave¹, from Old English rafian, to plunder; b. bereave, from Old English berafian, to take away (be-, bi-, intensive prefix; see ambhi); c. rover², from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German roven, to rob. a–c all from Germanic (bi-)raubn. 2a.* rob, from Old French rober, to rob; b. rubato, from Italian rubare, to rob. Both a and b from a Romance borrowing from Germanic raubn, to rob. 3. robe; garderobe, from Old French robe,* robe (< “clothes taken as booty”), from Germanic raub, booty. 4. Suffixed form roup-tro-. loot, from Sanskrit loptram, booty. 5. ruble, from Old Russian rubiti, to chop, hew, from Slavic rubje/a-. III.* Zero-grade form rup-. 1. usurp, from Latin srpre* (< su-rup-; sus,* use, usage, from t, to use), originally “to interrupt the orderly acquisition of something by the act of using,” whence to take into use, usurp. 2. Nasalized zero-grade form ru-m-p-. rout¹, rupture; abrupt, bankrupt, corrupt, disrupt, erupt, interrupt, irrupt, rupicolous, from Latin rumpere,* to break. (In Pokorny 2. reu- 868.)


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