| 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: | kerd- |
| DEFINITION: | Heart. Oldest form * erd-, becoming *kerd- in centum languages. 1. Suffixed form *kerd-en-. heart, from Old English heorte, heart, from Germanic *hert n-. 2. Zero-grade form *k d-. a. cordate, cordial, courage, quarry1; accord, concord, cordiform, discord, misericord, record, from Latin cor (stem cord-), heart; b. suffixed form *kd-y -. cardia, cardiac, cardio-; endocardium, epicardium, megalocardia, myocardium, pericardium, from Greek kardi, heart, stomach, orifice. 3. Possibly *kred-dh -, “to place trust” (an old religious term; *dh-, to do, place; see dh -). credence, credible, credit, credo, credulous, grant; miscreant, recreant, from Latin crdere, to believe. (Pokorny (ered-) 579.) |
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