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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	ker-
DEFINITION:	To mix, confuse, cook. Oldest form er₂-, becoming ker- in centum languages. 1. Variant form kr- (< kra-). a. uproar, from Middle Low German rr, motion, from Germanic hrr-; b. rare², from Old English hrr,* lightly boiled, half-cooked, possibly from Germanic hrr- (see a). 2. Zero-grade form k-. a. Suffixed form k-ti-. idiosyncrasy; dyscrasia, from Greek krsis,* a mixing; b. suffixed form k-ter-. crater, krater, from Greek krtr,* mixing vessel. (Pokorny er- 582.)


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