| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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w -ro- |
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Man. Contracted from *wi -ro-, derivative of wei-.
Derivatives include werewolf, world, and virtuoso.
1a. werewolf, wergeld, from Old English wer, man; b. (i) world, from Old English weorold, world; (ii) Weltanschauung, Weltschmerz, from Old High German weralt, world. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic compound *wer-ald-, “life or age of man” (*-ald-, age; see al-2); c. loup-garou, from Old French garoul, werewolf, from Frankish *wer-wulf, “man-wolf” (*wulf, wolf; see w kwo-). Both a and b from Germanic *weraz, from shortened form *wiraz. 2. virago, virile, virtue, virtuosa, virtuoso; decemvir, decurion, duumvir, triumvir, from Latin vir, man. 3. curia, from Latin c ria, curia, court, possibly from *co-vir-ia, “men together” (*co-, together; see kom). (Pokorny   ro-s 1177.) |
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