| 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: | ger- |
| DEFINITION: | To gather. Oldest form * 2ger-. 1. Extended form *grem-. cram, from Old English crammian, to stuff, cram, from Germanic *kramm-. 2. Reduplicated form *gre-g-. gregarious; aggregate, congregate, egregious, segregate, from Latin grex (stem greg-), herd, flock. 3. Basic form *ger-, with suffixed o-grade form *gor- -. agora1, agoraphobia, allegory, category, panegyric, from Greek ageirein, to assemble, and aguris, agor, marketplace. (Pokorny 1. ger- 382.) |
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