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Re: What's the Word?

#40052 08/30/2001 5:28 AM

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The American Heritage Dictionary at http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE574.html gives the Indo-European root as wer(schwa), meaning to speak, which has a suffixed zero grade form (no, I don't know what that means either) meaning word. I tried copying and pasting the entry but lost all the diacritical marks and non-standard characters.

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What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 08/30/2001 3:47 AM

Re: What's the Word? Bingley 08/30/2001 5:28 AM

Re: What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 08/30/2001 12:09 PM

Re: Suffixed zero-grade form Faldage 08/30/2001 2:32 PM

Re: What's the Word? Bobyoungbalt 08/31/2001 1:52 AM

Re: What's the Word (logos)? Faldage 08/31/2001 1:15 PM

Re: What's the Word (logos)? tsuwm 08/31/2001 1:36 PM

Re: What's the Word (logos)? Faldage 08/31/2001 2:33 PM

Re: What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 09/01/2001 12:51 AM

Re: What's the Word? Bingley 09/01/2001 2:05 PM

Re: What's the Word? Flatlander 09/05/2001 11:36 AM

Re: What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 09/05/2001 6:36 PM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- wow 09/05/2001 7:25 PM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Bobyoungbalt 09/06/2001 2:21 AM

Max Quordlepleen 09/06/2001 3:01 AM

Re: Sign and Speech Faldage 09/07/2001 6:11 PM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Bingley 09/06/2001 5:23 AM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- maverick 09/06/2001 11:01 AM

Word up, y'all homies! AnnaStrophic 09/06/2001 11:12 AM

Re: Word up, y'all homies! maverick 09/06/2001 11:33 AM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Flatlander 09/06/2001 1:06 PM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Faldage 09/06/2001 1:36 PM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- of troy 09/06/2001 2:38 PM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Faldage 09/06/2001 3:15 PM

Re: What's the Word? Just musing- maverick 09/07/2001 4:39 PM

Re: Fools vs. Angels Faldage 09/05/2001 12:33 PM

Re: Fools vs. Angels NicholasW 09/06/2001 8:24 AM

Re: Fools Faldage 09/06/2001 11:47 AM

Re: Fetch! maverick 09/06/2001 11:55 AM

Re: Did I done good? Faldage 09/06/2001 12:06 PM

hehehe AnnaStrophic 09/06/2001 1:16 PM

Re: What's the Word? milum 09/10/2001 5:02 AM

Re: What's the Word? Jackie 09/10/2001 10:42 AM

St. John I:1 Bobyoungbalt 09/11/2001 1:59 AM

Re: St. John I:1 Keiva 09/11/2001 11:06 AM

Re: St. John I:1 Jackie 09/11/2001 11:30 AM

Re: St. John I:1 maverick 09/11/2001 11:45 AM

Re: St. John I:1 Faldage 09/11/2001 2:24 PM

Re: language Keiva 09/11/2001 9:42 PM

Re: language Bingley 09/12/2001 12:38 AM

Re: language Keiva 09/12/2001 12:48 AM

Re: language tsuwm 09/12/2001 2:13 AM

Max Quordlepleen 09/12/2001 2:28 AM

Re: Speaking of Hyoids Faldage 09/12/2001 12:40 PM

Re: Speaking of Hyoids Bingley 09/12/2001 12:55 PM

Re: Speaking of Hyoids tsuwm 09/12/2001 1:41 PM

Re: Speaking of Hyoids Jackie 09/12/2001 3:17 PM

Re: Speaking of Hyoids wow 09/12/2001 7:23 PM

Re: language Bingley 09/12/2001 4:44 AM

Re: language Bingley 09/12/2001 5:22 AM

Re: language doc_comfort 09/12/2001 2:19 AM

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