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OP http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/1122/OEGLOSS.htm
A fun place to browse. For instance, our word "harvest"
is related to word meaning autumn, and German = Herbst
harvest
n.
5ME hervest < OE h+rfest, akin to Ger herbst (OHG herbist) < IE *(s)kerp3 < base *(s)ker3, to cut > SHEAR, SHORT, L caro, flesh, cernere & Gr krinein, to separate, karpos, fruit: basic sense “time of cutting”6
1 the time of the year when matured grain, fruit, vegetables, etc. are reaped and gathered in
2 a season‘s yield of grain, fruit, etc. when gathered in or ready to be gathered in; crop
3 the gathering in of a crop
4 the outcome or consequence of any effort or series of events !the tyrant‘s harvest of hate"
vt., vi.
1 to gather in (a crop, etc.)
2 to gather the crop from (a field)
3 to catch, shoot, trap, etc. (fish or game), often for commercial purposes
4 to get (something) as the result of an action or effort
har4vest[a[ble
adj.
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