| 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: | w -r- |
| DEFINITION: | Water, liquid, milk. Contracted from *we 1-r-; zero-grade *u1-r-, contracted to * r-. Related to eu-dh- . Suffixed zero-grade form *r- n -. urine, from Latin rna, urine. (In Pokorny 9. a (e)- 78.) |
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