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

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	w-
DEFINITION:	To blow. Contracted from we₁-; oldest basic form ₂we₁-. 1. Suffixed shortened form we-dhro-. weather, from Old English weder,* weather, storm, wind, from Germanic wedram wind, weather. 2. Suffixed (participial) form w-nt-o-, blowing. a. (i) wind¹, from Old English wind, wind; (ii) window, from Old Norse vindr, wind. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic windaz; b. vent¹, ventail, ventilate, from Latin ventus,* wind. 3. wing, from Middle English wenge, wing, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse vængr, wing, from suffixed Germanic form w-ingjaz. 4. Basic form w-. nirvana, from Sanskrit vti (stem v-), it blows. (Pokorny 10. a(e)-* 81.)


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