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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: What's the Word? #40052 08/30/01 05:28 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta 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. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 08/30/01 03:47 AM Re: What's the Word? Bingley 08/30/01 05:28 AM Re: What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 08/30/01 12:09 PM Re: Suffixed zero-grade form Faldage 08/30/01 02:32 PM Re: What's the Word? Bobyoungbalt 08/31/01 01:52 AM Re: What's the Word (logos)? Faldage 08/31/01 01:15 PM Re: What's the Word (logos)? tsuwm 08/31/01 01:36 PM Re: What's the Word (logos)? Faldage 08/31/01 02:33 PM Re: What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 09/01/01 12:51 AM Re: What's the Word? Bingley 09/01/01 02:05 PM Re: What's the Word? Flatlander 09/05/01 11:36 AM Re: What's the Word? WhitmanO'Neill 09/05/01 06:36 PM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- wow 09/05/01 07:25 PM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Bobyoungbalt 09/06/01 02:21 AM Max Quordlepleen 09/06/01 03:01 AM Re: Sign and Speech Faldage 09/07/01 06:11 PM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Bingley 09/06/01 05:23 AM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- maverick 09/06/01 11:01 AM Word up, y'all homies! AnnaStrophic 09/06/01 11:12 AM Re: Word up, y'all homies! maverick 09/06/01 11:33 AM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Flatlander 09/06/01 01:06 PM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Faldage 09/06/01 01:36 PM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- of troy 09/06/01 02:38 PM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- Faldage 09/06/01 03:15 PM Re: What's the Word? Just musing- maverick 09/07/01 04:39 PM Re: Fools vs. Angels Faldage 09/05/01 12:33 PM Re: Fools vs. Angels NicholasW 09/06/01 08:24 AM Re: Fools Faldage 09/06/01 11:47 AM Re: Fetch! maverick 09/06/01 11:55 AM Re: Did I done good? Faldage 09/06/01 12:06 PM hehehe AnnaStrophic 09/06/01 01:16 PM Re: What's the Word? milum 09/10/01 05:02 AM Re: What's the Word? Jackie 09/10/01 10:42 AM St. John I:1 Bobyoungbalt 09/11/01 01:59 AM Re: St. John I:1 Keiva 09/11/01 11:06 AM Re: St. John I:1 Jackie 09/11/01 11:30 AM Re: St. John I:1 maverick 09/11/01 11:45 AM Re: St. John I:1 Faldage 09/11/01 02:24 PM Re: language Keiva 09/11/01 09:42 PM Re: language Bingley 09/12/01 12:38 AM Re: language Keiva 09/12/01 12:48 AM Re: language tsuwm 09/12/01 02:13 AM Max Quordlepleen 09/12/01 02:28 AM Re: Speaking of Hyoids Faldage 09/12/01 12:40 PM Re: Speaking of Hyoids Bingley 09/12/01 12:55 PM Re: Speaking of Hyoids tsuwm 09/12/01 01:41 PM Re: Speaking of Hyoids Jackie 09/12/01 03:17 PM Re: Speaking of Hyoids wow 09/12/01 07:23 PM Re: language Bingley 09/12/01 04:44 AM Re: language Bingley 09/12/01 05:22 AM Re: language doc_comfort 09/12/01 02:19 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,322 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 412 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 25 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,535 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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