| 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: | (s)mer-1 |
| DEFINITION: | To remember. 1. Suffixed zero-grade form *m -no-. mourn, from Old English murnan, to mourn, from Germanic *murnan, to remember sorrowfully. 2. Reduplicated form *me-mor-. a. Mimir, from Old Norse Mimir, a giant who guards the well of wisdom, from Germanic *mi-mer-; b. memorable, memorandum, memory; commemorate, remember, from Latin memor, mindful. (Pokorny (s)mer- 969.) |
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