| 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: | sreu- |
| DEFINITION: | To flow. 1. Suffixed o-grade form *srou-mo-. a. stream, from Old English str am, stream; b. maelstrom, from Middle Dutch stroom, stream. Both a and b from Germanic *straumaz, stream. 2. Basic form *sreu-. a. rheo-, –rrhea; catarrh, diarrhea, hemorrhoid, rhyolite, from Greek rhein, to flow, with o-grade rhoos, flowing, a flowing; b. suffixed form *sreu-m . rheum, from Greek rheuma, stream, humor of the body. 3. Suffixed zero-grade form *sru-dhmo-. rhythm, from Greek rhuthmos, measure, recurring motion, rhythm. 4. Suffixed zero-grade form *sru-to-. rhyton, from Greek rhutos, fluid, liquid. 5. Perhaps zero-grade extended form *srug-. sastruga, from Russian struga, deep place. (Pokorny sreu- 1003.) |
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