| 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: | y r- |
| DEFINITION: | Year, season. Contracted from *ye 1r-. 1. Suffixed basic form *yr-o-. a. year, from Old English gar, year; b. Yahrzeit, from Old High German j r, year. Both a and b from Germanic *jram, year. 2. Suffixed o-grade form *y r--. horary, hour; horologe, horology, horoscope, from Greek hr, season. (In Pokorny 1. ei- 293.) |
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