| 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: | m -1 |
| DEFINITION: | Expressing certain qualities of mind. Contracted from *me 1-. 1. Suffixed o-grade form *m -to-. a. mood1, from Old English md, mind, disposition; b. gemütlich, gemütlichkeit, from Old High German muot, mind, spirit. Both a and b from Germanic *mthaz. 2. Perhaps suffixed o-grade form *m-s-. moral, morale, mores, morose, from Latin ms, wont, humor, manner, custom. (Pokorny 5. m- 704.) |
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