| 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: | g  -no- |
| DEFINITION: | Grain. Oldest form * -no-, becoming *g-no- in centum languages. 1a. corn1, from Old English corn, grain; b. kernel, from Old English derivative noun cyrnel, seed, pip; c. einkorn, from Old High German korn, grain. a–c all from Germanic *kornam. 2. garner, garnet, grain, gram2, granadilla, granary, grange, grani-, granita, granite, granule, grenade, grenadine; filigree, grosgrain, pomegranate, from Latin gr num, grain. (In Pokorny er- 390.) |
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